American Philosophy of Technology
The Empirical Turn
American Philosophy of Technology
The Empirical Turn
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The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winner - are shown to represent an empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America.
Hans Achterhuis is a Professor of Philosophy at Twente University, who writes about development aid, welfare work, and scarcity. In the area of technology studies, his current interest is in the relation between time and technology. He is editor of The Matter of Technology (in Dutch).
Robert P. Crease is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is author of Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory 1946-1972 and The Play of Nature: Experimentation as
Performance (Indiana University Press). He is a columnist for Physics World.