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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Roger Fellows
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The essays collected here do not constitute a philosophy of technology, in the sense which, for instance, Don Ihde requires. According to Ihde the philosopher of technology must reflectively analyse technology in such a way ‘as to illuminate features of the phenomenon of technology itself’. The contributors to this volume do not concern themselves with the essentiahst enterprise of defining technology; they more or less take it for granted that the reader is familiar with a variety of technologies such as Information Technology, and proceed from there. Hence the title is the conjunctive one of Philosophy and Technolog..

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 38 , March 1995 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1995

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References

* The essays in this volume derive from papers delivered at a Royal Institute of Philosophy conference held at the University of Bradford in July 1994, on the theme of Philosophy and Technology.

1 Ihde, Don, Philosophy of Technolog. (New York: Paragon House, 1987), p. 38.Google Scholar