A philosophy of technology: a journey with return
Introduction
This work taking one taxonomy and four topics, so we can build a network that connected (like nodes) authors, books, citations, news, papers, videos, and other contents to get the big pictures of the philosophy of technology approach.In this sense, the first part of this effort follows the taxonomy describes by Reydon in his article titled: "Philosophy of technology", published on Internet Philosophy of Technology.
(1) philosophy of technology as the systematic clarification of the nature of technology as an element and product of human culture (Wartofsky’s holistic and developmental approaches; Rapp’s cultural approach; Böhme’s ontological, anthropological and historical paradigms; and Mitcham’s engineering approach);
(2) philosophy of technology as the systematic reflection on the consequences of technology for human life (Wartofsky’s particularistic and social/critical approaches; Rapp’s social impact and physical impact approaches; and Mitcham’s humanities approach);
(3) philosophy of technology as the systematic investigation of the practices of engineering, invention, designing and making of things (Wartofsky’s particularistic approach; Rapp’s invention approach; Böhme’s epistemological paradigm; and Mitcham’s engineering approach)
Reydon, T. A. C. (n.d.). Philosophy of technology. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Pub. Retrieved from http://www.iep.utm.edu/technolo/#H2
The second part of this approach tries to apply this taxonomy in specific topics. So, I´ve selected four for follow in their updates. This domain, for giving them a name, was grouped by triads like this list:
- Simulation, augmented reality and virtual worlds
- Robots, Cyborgs and the Avatar.
- Artificial Intelligence, learning machine, and human education
- Transhumanism, Cryogenic, and rejuvenation
So you are free to start for any nodes.