Abstract

VINCK, Dominique. THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. Univ. philos. [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.58, pp.17-37. ISSN 0120-5323.

This paper proposes a journey through the ways of thinking about technology and its relationships to societies. It reminds us contributions of some authors useful in finding the words to address this issue: technology and its impacts on society; technical and human reality as a social construction. Also it emphasizes some of challenges around the issue of thinking the very articulations between technology and society. It wonders about how to think of technology and society not as separate objects but as a single reality.

Keywords : philosophy of technology; technique; technology; sociotechnical networks; culture.

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