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Technologies are undeniably having a decisive, transformative impact on Earth, yet the currently prevailing empirically orientated approaches in the philosophy of technology seem unable to get to ... method as well as its key elements and structure. Elucidating Blok's emphasis on the experience of climate change, the paper clarifies his call for a terrestrial turn in the philosophy of technology. This
in a broader context of the history and philosophy of science, and that Kant and his supporters never advocated the logical monism that they are still said to hold today. ... monism that they are still said to hold today. History of logic; Kantian logic; Philosophy of science; Methodology; Logical pluralism 1 Introduction Ever since the monumental works of Bocheński or the
Is Gilles Deleuze’s concept of virtuality sufficiently close to the concept of virtuality used in informatics and the philosophy of information for computer-created objects and virtual reality to ... most commonly found in the philosophy of information and debates on the digital revolution, and precisely this is the aim of this paper. By analysing the virtuality concept outlined in The Actual and the
This paper is a contribution to a discussion in philosophy of technology by focusing on the epistemological status of the example. Of the various developments in the emerging, inchoate field of ... question as to whether philosophy still has a proper object of study is a broader problematic within academic philosophy. One answer is: No, philosophy of language is fundamental linguistics, political
. “Mathematical concepts” are just idols, that philosophy can completely deny and physics can completely ignore. ... more complicated than this, and there are two basic reasons for this. On the one hand, those strands of the philosophy of mathematics that deny in principle the existence of mental or abstract
-gatherer communities where nakedness remained the norm. This novel perspective aims to advance the history and philosophy of science, revealing the emergence of science as a situated phenomenon contingent on ... stress is on ensuring a disconnection from immediate experience to achieve reliability. In its ultimate formulation, analytic philosophy, even the most objective observations must be distrusted along with
of this special issue is broad in scope, since its contributions range over different topics in logic and philosophy of science. Following Sellars' idea that “the aim of philosophy, abstractly ... among all of these. To better understand those connections, the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences (SILFS) organized its 4th Postgraduate Conference. The conference took place in Urbino
We ponder the question whether quantum physics has had any influence on philosophy, and if not, whether it ought to have had any. Answers to these questions are provided, and they turn out to depend ... reach philosophy? Has the Quantum Revolution had any influence on philosophy? If it had not had any influence, should it have had any influence? These questions are the topic of this paper. A
political leaders seeking to justify their political decisions (Devlin & Boseley, 2020) . This has raised understandable concerns about transparency surrounding the use of scientific outcomes to inform ... implicated in policy design processes, how politics intertwine with science in informing effective policies, and the role and relative influence of scientists in complex political decision-making processes
Whether truth is absolute or relative has been a widely discussed topic for over two thousand years in epistemology and the philosophy of science. However, this issue has not yet been discussed ... , and categories, get in touch with the deep foundational problems which exist in their discipline. Although relativism has been one of the most challenging topics in epistemology and the philosophy of
This critical response to Dominic Smith’s ‘Taking Exception: Philosophy of Technology as a Multidimensional Problem Space’ begins by outlining the key contributions of his essay, namely his ... Smith's essay provides a number of exciting questions for the philosophy of technology, none the least suggesting new images with which we should describe our practice of theory development and ideas of
rethinking requires a new look at the theories of finance that is philosophical in kind. In effect, as Martha Nussbaum claims, if the absence of philosophy in economics is arguably one of the main reasons for ... flaws in our theories on financial systems. In this paper I discuss the mutual relations and benefits between finance and philosophy. First, I examine the contribution that philosophy can offer to finance
philosophy in general and philosophy of technology in particular. Part two outlines the concept of ‘exceptional technologies’. These are artefacts and practices that show up as limit cases for our received ... in my 2018 book, Exceptional Technologies. The claims are that philosophy of technology stands to benefit from: (1) a renewed sense of the transcendental as an approach to argument or method; (2
critics, one should study technologies empirically in order to fully understand them. They developed several strategies to empirically inform the philosophy of technology and called their new approach the ... /0270467604270259 Svensson , F. ( 1979 ). The technological challenge to political theory . In G. Bugliarello & D. B. Doner (Eds.), The history and philosophy of technology (pp. 294 - 308 ). University of Illinois
acceptance or rejection of a theory. The analytical perspectives will be contextualized within a broader theoretical discussion in philosophy and social sciences about the role of different factors that ... . Therefore, the recent debate about the interpretation of the continental-drift controversy serves as a unique opportunity for the philosophy and sociology of science to revise its recurrent discussions about
analogous to core tenets of 20th-century operationalist/positivist/constructivist/intuitionist philosophy of science and mathematics. Operationalism provides coherent answers to a range of traditional ... been recognised. Geometrical constructions; Conic compass; Euclid; Archytas; Diocles; Cissoid; Superposition; Philosophy of geometry 1 Introduction 1.1 The Question Ancient Greek geometers were
Pieter Lemmens’ neo-Marxist approach to technology urges us to rethink how to do political philosophy of technology. First, Lemmens’ high level of abstraction raises the question of how empirically ... political theory of technology needs to be. Second, his dialectical focus on a ''struggle'' between humans and technologies reveals the limits of neo-Marxism. Political philosophy of technology needs to
Philosophy at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. He also has the title of docent in practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Lehtinen received his PhD in 2007 at the Erasmus ... Institute for Economics and Philosophy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After completing his PhD studies, he has had various academic positions at different universities, such as the University of Helsinki
This short paper offers a series of responses to Jochem Zwier and Timothy Barker’s comments on my extended paper ‘Taking Exception: Philosophy of Technology as a Multidimensional Problem Space.’ Part ... point is the emphasis on agonising over problems. Before reading his response, my instinct when faced with ‘agonism’ would have been to think: ‘political philosophy’, ‘dispute’, ‘conflict’. What has never
argue that his ontological relativity is inconsistent with the empirical data associated with some of our best physical theories, such as quantum mechanics. We refer to fundamental concepts of philosophy ... of the original position. We will invoke fundamental concepts from philosophy and the foundations of mathematics in order to clarify our critique of Quine’s position on the relation between formalized
