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Philosophy versus history of technology

Andrzej P. Wierzbicki

pp. 243-267

Abstract

If we select a typical monograph on the philosophy of technology from the turn of the 20th and 21st century, e.g. (Scharff and Dusek 2003), then its reading must fill a technologist with a tremendous worry. This anthology of philosophy of technology, edited in Oxford, very comprehensive and thus and appearing to be authoritative, contains 55 papers. Most of them are devoted to a criticism of a badly defined entity called "technology" which, after a deeper analyais. turns out to be the criticism of the socio-economic system of using technology in industrial society. This chapter contains a critical discussion with several books of philosophy of technology that are more neutral towards "technology"

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Published in:

Wierzbicki Andrzej P. (2015) Technen: elements of recent history of information technologies with epistemological conclusions. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 243-267

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09033-7_13

Full citation:

Wierzbicki Andrzej P. (2015) Philosophy versus history of technology, In: Technen, Dordrecht, Springer, 243–267.