By Maarten Franssen,Pieter E. Vermaas,Peter Kroes,Anthonie W.M. Meijers
This quantity positive aspects sixteen essays at the philosophy of know-how that debate its id, its place in philosophy more often than not, and the position of empirical reviews in philosophical analyses of engineering ethics and engineering practices.
This quantity is released approximately fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers released a set of papers less than 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 crumble in other forms. One type follows up at the empirical flip dialogue approximately what the philosophy of know-how is all approximately. It keeps the hunt for the id of the philosophy of know-how by way of asking what comes after the empirical flip. the opposite form of essays follows the decision for an empirical flip within the philosophy of expertise via displaying the way it will be learned in regards to specific subject matters. jointly those essays provide the reader an outline of the state-of-the-art of an empirically trained philosophy of know-how and of varied perspectives at the empirical flip as a stepping stone into the way forward for the philosophy of technology.
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