This article reviews constructivist technology studies, and especially the social construction
of technology (SCOT). To investigate how these constructivist studies regard the ontology of …

Organizations such as the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI and the IEEE have recently
formulated ethical principles and (moral) values that should be adhered to in the design and …

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If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the
term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it …

This book is about the functions of technical artefacts, material objects made to serve
practical purposes; objects ranging from tablets of Aspirin to Concorde, from wooden clogs …

We start in this chapter by analysing the nature of technical artefacts. What sorts of objects
are they? What are the typical characteristics of technical artefacts? Given that technical …

The exponential progress of AI systems today compels scientists and philosophers to
redefine their conceptual frameworks to better understand the nature of these new …

Los humanos nacieron como una especie ciborg, simios con prótesis culturales y técnicas.
Los ciborgs sufren una melancolía fruto del desarraigo: sienten nostalgia de un mundo …

The transformational model of social activity (TMSA), in many ways the centerpiece of critical
realism, has been widely used in areas of information systems research. However, little has …

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from
Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple …