After several technological revolutions in which technologies became ever more present in
our daily lives, the digital technologies that are currently being developed are actually fading …

During the past decade, the role of technological objects in society and in people's everyday
lives has become a central theme in the philosophy of technology. Many authors have made …

In this chapter, I attempt to trace out some of the ways in which recent developments in the
study of mundane technology might inform “technological literacy.” As a subject taught in …

Where have the past 35 years of philosophy of technology taken us? And where should our
field go in the years that are ahead of us? In this brief contribution, I will argue that the …

The history of the philosophy of technology is marked by a transition in its approach to
technology. This transition is often indicated as an 'empirical turn'(Achterhuis 2001; Kroes …

The emerging school of thought called “postphenomenology” offers a distinct understanding
of the ways that people experience technology usage. This perspective combines insights …

Over the past decades, the philosophy of technology has developed into a new subfield of
philosophy, with its own domain of inquiry, journals, conference series, educational …

Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves,
mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can their role in our lives be …

What does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues
that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a comprehensive, critical introduction to the …

A central question in philosophical and sociological accounts of technology is how the
agency of technologies should be conceived, that is, how to understand their constitutive …