By Maarten Franssen, Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Anthonie W.M. Meijers
This quantity good points sixteen essays at the philosophy of know-how that debate its id, its place in philosophy regularly, and the function of empirical stories in philosophical analyses of engineering ethics and engineering practices.
This quantity is released approximately fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers released a suite of papers below the name The empirical flip within the philosophy of know-how, within which they referred to as for a reorientation towards the perform of engineering, and sketched the most likely advantages for philosophy of know-how of pursuing its significant questions in an empirically educated way.
The essays during this quantity collapse in other forms. One variety follows up at the empirical flip dialogue approximately what the philosophy of know-how is all approximately. It maintains the quest for the id of the philosophy of know-how by way of asking what comes after the empirical flip. the opposite type of essays follows the decision for an empirical flip within the philosophy of know-how by means of exhibiting the way it can be discovered in regards to specific subject matters. jointly those essays supply the reader an summary of the state-of-the-art of an empirically knowledgeable philosophy of know-how and of assorted perspectives at the empirical flip as a stepping stone into the way forward for the philosophy of technology.
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6, we discuss important connections between the philosophy of technology and the philosophy of language. 8 Involved in this claim is the notorious English term ‘technology’, which merges an object and its study into a single notion. Many other languages are careful to make the distinction. In French and German, for instance, there is, still (although one may wonder how long it can resist the dominance of English), a significant difference between ‘technique’ and ‘technologie’ and between ‘Technik’ and ‘Technologie’, respectively.
It is this “coming into focus” of methodological, epistemological, ontological and ethical questions concerning technology that we wish to look into more closely in this essay. Kroes and Meijers started their editorial introduction with a characterization of philosophy of technology as professed in the 1960s–1990s, but exactly as a field of philosophy its position was an extremely marginal one. Much of it, notably the “critical reflections on the consequences of science and technology for the individual and social form of life”, was probably not seen as being serious philosophy – where ‘serious philosophy’ is understood as philosophy practised as an academic profession – or as belonging to philosophy at all.
Philosophy of technology could not be taken seriously as a philosophical discipline as long as it did not notice and take into account the engineering dimension of technology, which is responsible for the coming-into-existence of technology and has a large, if not decisive, say in what it comes to look like. A reorientation of the field was necessary, of the form of an “empirical turn”. In their preface to the same volume, the editors expressed high hopes for what this reorientation of philosophy would deliver (Kroes and Meijers 2000a): Philosophers have to open the black box of technology and base their analyses on an inside view of the engineering practice and on empirically adequate descriptions of technology.