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 …

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the
philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues …

In this paper I argue that Artificial Intelligence and the many data science methods
associated with it, such as machine learning and large language models, are first and …

Technical artifacts are taken to include all the common objects of everyday life, such as
chairs, televisions, paper clips, telephones, smartphones and dog collars. They are material …

The co-evolution of society and potentially disruptive technologies makes decision guidance
on such technologies difficult. Four basic principles are proposed for such decision …

Public debates about nanotechnology are often conducted in terms of mere possibility
arguments (MPAs). These arguments come in two variants. According to the negative …

By introducing the possibility of producing meat either from plants or from animal stem cells,
technological innovations have opened the door to considering meat as an artefactual …

The following paper offers a political and philosophical reading of ethically informed
technological design practices to critically tackle the implicit regulative ideal in the design of …

As usual, Joanne goes to work by bicycle. She is an engineer in a medium-sized company
in the automatic control industry. The first thing she does after putting down her bag in her …

Ethics education has become essential in modern engineering. Ethics education in
engineering has been increasingly implemented worldwide. It can improve ethical behaviors …