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Philosophy in technology: A research program

Paweł Polak

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce > 2023 > 75 > 59-81

Philosophy in technology is a research program that studies the philosophical roots of engineering and technology. Technologists, by virtue of their education, believe that the limits, goals, possibilities, and effects of technology on society and humankind are exclusively technological problems, hence their solutions must lie exclusively in technology. In contrast, philosophy in technology asserts...

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Lem’s Philosophy of Chance in His Fiction and Non-Fiction

Graefrath, Bernd

Filozofia i Nauka > 2022 > 10

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Stanisław Lem’s Visions of a Technological Future: Toward Philosophy in Technology

Polak, Paweł, Krzanowski, Roman

Filozofia i Nauka > 2022 > 10

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Lem’s Philosophy of Chance in his Fiction and Non-Fiction

Bernd Graefrath

Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne > 2022 > 10 > 27-30

Stanislaw Lem recognizes the far-reaching role of chance both in gaining knowledge and in explaining the development of cultural norms. The consequences are explored by him in fiction and non-fiction.

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Modern Forms of Surveillance and Control

Dustin Gray

Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne > 2022 > 10, zeszyt specjalny > 213-228

In todays advanced society, there is rising concern for data privacy and the diminution thereof on the internet. I argue from the position that for one to enjoy privacy, one must be able to effectively exercise autonomous action. I offer in this paper a survey of the many ways in which persons autonomy is severely limited due to a variety of privacy invasions that come not only through the use of...

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Stanisław Lem’s Visions of a Technological Future: Toward Philosophy in Technology

Paweł Polak, Roman Krzanowski

Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne > 2022 > 10 > 41-50

Stanisław Lem is mostly known as a sci-fi writer and not widely perceived as a visionary of the cyber age, despite the fact that he foresaw the future of information technology better than most scientific experts. Indeed, his visions of future information-based societies have proved to be remarkably accurate. Lem’s stories fuse together elements of fantasy, philosophy, and science, but what we can...

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Cztery koncepcje relacji człowiek–technika

Tomasz Łach

Studia Gilsoniana > 2022 > 11 > 2 > 325-345

There have been two trends in the study of technology. On the one hand, critics of technology have emphasised the threats stemming from the development and use of advanced machines and devices, while on the other hand, there has been admiration for the successes brought by progress. The article presents an attempt to put this complex issue in order. Based on the analysis formulated by Andrew Feenberg,...

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Modern Forms of Surveillance and Control

Dustin Gray

Filozofia i Nauka > 2022 > 10, zeszyt specjalny > 213-228

In todays advanced society, there is rising concern for data privacy and the diminution thereof on the internet. I argue from the position that for one to enjoy privacy, one must be able to effectively exercise autonomous action. I offer in this paper a survey of the many ways in which persons autonomy is severely limited due to a variety of privacy invasions that come not only through the use of...

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Stanisław Lem’s Visions of a Technological Future: Toward Philosophy in Technology

Paweł Polak, Roman Krzanowski

Filozofia i Nauka > 2022 > 10 > 41-50

Stanisław Lem is mostly known as a sci-fi writer and not widely perceived as a visionary of the cyber age, despite the fact that he foresaw the future of information technology better than most scientific experts. Indeed, his visions of future information-based societies have proved to be remarkably accurate. Lem’s stories fuse together elements of fantasy, philosophy, and science, but what we can...

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Lem’s Philosophy of Chance in his Fiction and Non-Fiction

Bernd Graefrath

Filozofia i Nauka > 2022 > 10 > 27-30

Stanislaw Lem recognizes the far-reaching role of chance both in gaining knowledge and in explaining the development of cultural norms. The consequences are explored by him in fiction and non-fiction.

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A manifesto for messy philosophy of technology: the history and future of an academic field

Gregory Morgan Swer, Jean Du Toit

Teorie vědy (Theory of Science) > 2020 > 42 > 2 > 231-252

Philosophy of technology was not initially considered a consolidated field of inquiry. However, under the influence of sociology and pragmatist philosophy, something resembling a consensus has emerged in a field previously marked by a lack of agreement amongst its practitioners. This has given the field a greater sense of structure and yielded interesting research. However, the loss of the earlier...

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Systemverfahrenstechnik – Eine philosophische Begriffsanalyse

Michael Kuhn, Heiko Briesen

Chemie Ingenieur Technik > 91 > 9 > 1229 - 1237

„Systemverfahrenstechnik” scheint sprachlich und inhaltlich häufig unklar. Basierend auf einer philosophischen Analyse, welche die Begriffe „System”, „Technik” und „Verfahren” erschließt, wird daher eine möglichst tragfähige Definition von Systemverfahrenstechnik erarbeitet und zur Diskussion gestellt. Dabei wird betont, dass vor allem die systembasierte Arbeitsweise die betrachtete Disziplin von...

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The Unabomber’s ethics

Ole Martin Moen

Bioethics > 33 > 2 > 223 - 229

In this paper, I present and criticize Ted Kaczynski’s (“The Unabomber”) theory that industrialization has been terrible for humanity, and that we should use any means necessary, including violent means, to induce a return to pre‐industrial ways of living. Although Kaczynski’s manifesto, Industrial society and its future, has become widely known, his ideas have never before been subject to careful...

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Socio-Humanistic Support for Technological Development: What Should It Be Like?

S. V. Pirozhkova

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences > 2018 > 88 > 3 > 210-219

Prospects for the humanities and social sciences under the conditions of the so-called technoscientific stage of the development of science, characterized by closely entwined scientific research and scientific design and highlighting the objectives of creating new equipment and technologies and not obtaining basic knowledge, are discussed. The author analyzes the historical peculiarities of technoscience...

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Technologia krzemieniarska w perspektywie filozofii techniki

Jakub Mugaj

Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia > 2017 > 22 > 143-155

The paper present non-instrumentalist view of technology derived by the work of M. Heidegger, G. Agamben and H. Arendt. This non-utilitarian aspect of technology is used to explain the social meaning of flint working in prehistory. The changes of flint technology related with so-called ‘tool technological revolution’ observed in Neolithic indicate radical shift in social significance of technology...

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Curriculum components of technology education within the Maltese National minimum curriculum from year 1999 to 2016

Sarah Pule’

International Journal of Technology and Design Education > 2019 > 29 > 3 > 441-472

Like many other countries the curriculum components and goals of technology education in Malta have experienced evolutionary changes. Changes in Malta occurred at a fast rate but were not always perceived to be in step with international trends, debates and research about technology curricula. This document analyses the text in Maltese National Minimum Curriculum documents in light of international...

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Migration and Cooperative Infrastructures

Lorenzo Del Savio, Giulia Cavaliere, Matteo Mameli

Philosophy & Technology > 2019 > 32 > 3 > 425-444

A proper understanding of the moral and political significance of migration requires a focus on global inequalities. More specifically, it requires a focus on those global inequalities that affect people’s ability to participate in the production of economic goods and non-economic goods (e.g., relationships of intimacy and care, opportunities for self-expression, well-functioning institutions, etc...

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Alignment of the traditional approach to perceptions and attitudes with Mitcham’s philosophical framework of technology

Piet Ankiewicz

International Journal of Technology and Design Education > 2019 > 29 > 2 > 329-340

According to Mitcham’s (Thinking through Technology, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994) fourfold philosophical framework, technological knowledge and volition, with their origin within human beings, give rise to technological activities expressed as concrete technological objects. Technologies are associated with a wide array of volitional activities, drives, motivation, aspiration, intentions...

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Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Technology: Tool Use, Forms of Life, Technique, and a Transcendental Argument

Mark Coeckelbergh, Michael Funk

Human Studies > 2018 > 41 > 2 > 165-191

The work of Ludwig Wittgenstein is seldom used by philosophers of technology, let alone in a systematic way, and in general there has been little discussion about the role of language in relation to technology. Conversely, Wittgenstein scholars have paid little attention to technology in the work of Wittgenstein. In this paper we read the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty in order to explore...

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A critical analysis of the Asilomar AI principles

M. Garbowski

Zeszyty Naukowe. Organizacja i Zarządzanie / Politechnika Śląska > 2018 > z. 115 > 45--55

The article focuses on the analysis of a set of principles concerning the development of artificial intelligence, which were agreed upon a the Asilomar international conference in January 2017. The declaration was signed by leading scholar in the field of transhumanism and representatives of the hi-tech enterprises. The purpose of the article is to lay out the core assumptions behind this established...

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Philosophy in technology: A research program

Lem’s Philosophy of Chance in His Fiction and Non-Fiction

Stanisław Lem’s Visions of a Technological Future: Toward Philosophy in Technology

Lem’s Philosophy of Chance in his Fiction and Non-Fiction

Modern Forms of Surveillance and Control

Stanisław Lem’s Visions of a Technological Future: Toward Philosophy in Technology

Cztery koncepcje relacji człowiek–technika

Modern Forms of Surveillance and Control

Stanisław Lem’s Visions of a Technological Future: Toward Philosophy in Technology

Lem’s Philosophy of Chance in his Fiction and Non-Fiction

A manifesto for messy philosophy of technology: the history and future of an academic field

Systemverfahrenstechnik – Eine philosophische Begriffsanalyse

The Unabomber’s ethics

Socio-Humanistic Support for Technological Development: What Should It Be Like?

Technologia krzemieniarska w perspektywie filozofii techniki

Curriculum components of technology education within the Maltese National minimum curriculum from year 1999 to 2016

Migration and Cooperative Infrastructures

Alignment of the traditional approach to perceptions and attitudes with Mitcham’s philosophical framework of technology

Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Technology: Tool Use, Forms of Life, Technique, and a Transcendental Argument

A critical analysis of the Asilomar AI principles

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