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The philosophy of technology is a sub-field of philosophy that studies the nature of technology and its social effects. Philosophical discussion of questions relating to technology (or its Greek ancestor techne ) dates back to the very dawn of Western philosophy . [ 1 ]
It includes philosophers from other disciplines who are recognised as having made an important contribution to the field, for example those commonly included in reference anthologies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Compared to his predecessors in philosophy of technology, such as Martin Heidegger and Jacques Ellul who have a dystopian view of technology, Feenberg's view is positive even though critical. For Heidegger and Ellul technology affects people's life but is for the most part beyond their control.
In this deep future, which could be years or millennia away, civilisation has reached technological maturity. Going beyond post-scarcity and post-work utopias, we reach a post-instrumental utopia ...
Albert Borgmann (Nov. 23, 1937 – May 7, 2023) was a German-born American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. Borgmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, and was a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. In 2013 Borgmann received the Golden Eurydice Award for his contributions to philosophy. [1]
The central concept defining a technological society is technique.Technique is different from machines, technology, or procedures for attaining an end. "In our technological society, technique is the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity."
Radovan Richta (6 June 1924 – 21 July 1983) was a Czechoslovak philosopher who coined the term technological evolution; a theory about how societies diminish physical labour by increasing mental labour. [1] Richta's first work was Člověk a technika v revoluci našich dnů ("Man and Technology in the Revolution of Our Day"), published in ...
"Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics," Social Research 15 (Spring 1973). "Jewish and Christian Elements in Philosophy: their Share in the Emergence of the Modern Mind" "Seventeenth Century and After: The Meaning of the Scientific and Technological Revolution" "Socioeconomic Knowledge and Ignorance of Goals"