Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Technology (Research in Philosophy and Technology)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780762306817
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; Technology & Industrial Arts; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Science/Mathematics; General; History; Science-History; Social Science / General; Social Science-General; Technology / General; Technology; Epistemology
First sentence: Our incessant involvement in everyday life with increasingly powerful technological devices, systems, and environments, amounting to what might be called a 'dwelling in techno-worlds', gives rise to the following question: Is it possible that in dealing with new kinds of useful things, requiring new kinds of engagements with them, we encounter the 'world' in novel ways which could ultimately lead to ontological transformations of us, that is, to transformations of the way we are?