Finally, other factors of a non-speculative character also had an impact on natural philosophy: technological innovations such as printing, the telescope and the microscope, geographical discoveries, and developments within the universities themselves, such as the institution of botanical gardens.
In gadget-land design philosophy, technological exhibitionism often trumps functional common sense.
He came to believe that a key role of the philosopher in modern society was to acquire the knowledge of a polymath, then use it to help guide humanity to its next phase of existence — a discipline that he called "the philosophy of technological prediction".
In response to this discussion, Ian Jarvie (1966) proposed as important questions for a philosophy of technology an inquiry into the epistemological status of technological statements and the way technological statements are to be demarcated from scientific statements.
In what she described as "a call for humility," she urged researchers to cultivate and teach "modes of knowing that are often pushed aside in expanding scientific understanding and technological capacity" including history, moral philosophy, political theory and social studies of science — what people value and why they value it.
My work focuses on several interrelated topics: personal identity in a technological world, values, relativism and philosophy of mind, the phenomenological view of consciousness, and, ultimately -- the loneliness of mankind.
One writer described this ethos as a "contradictory mix of technological determinism and libertarian individualism," the philosophy that technology can fix everything and that the only evil is government regulation.
The deeper concern, for me, is the philosophy conveyed by a technological design.
JN: One of the things that struck me forcibly in your writing is the thought that implicit in every technological choice there is some underlying philosophy or ideology.
There he applied Ganz's philosophy, adding to it new technological tools for mobilizing voters.
Much of the Western democratic world has achieved peaceful progress in this way, despite new political philosophies, population increases, industrial and technological innovations, and many other social and economic stresses.
