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technophilosophy en · NOUN

Etymology

From techno- + philosophy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The philosophy of technology.
   • Technophilosophy, as I shall call the philosophy of technology, was probably founded by Aristotle. 1979, Mario Bunge, “The five buds of technophilosophy”, in Technology in Society, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 67:
   • Following this strand of technophilosophy, Jane Bennett has argued that we should think about the ways in which humans and technologies are participants in heterogeneous networks. 2019, Tom Idema, Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism, Routledge, page 14:
   • The question "What kinds of relationships is it appropriate to have with machines?" has been explored in science fiction and in technophilosophy. 2004, Sherry Turkle, “Whither Psychoanalysis in Computer Culture”, in David M. Kaplan, editor, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, Rowman & Littlefield, page 426:

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