technophilosophy

English

Etymology

techno- +‎ philosophy

Noun

technophilosophy (countable and uncountable, plural technophilosophies)

1. The philosophy of technology.
   • 1979, Mario Bunge, “The five buds of technophilosophy”, in Technology in Society, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 67:

     Technophilosophy, as I shall call the philosophy of technology, was probably founded by Aristotle.

   • 2004, Sherry Turkle, “Whither Psychoanalysis in Computer Culture”, in David M. Kaplan, editor, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology‎^[1], Rowman & Littlefield, page 426:

     The question "What kinds of relationships is it appropriate to have with machines?" has been explored in science fiction and in technophilosophy.

   • 2019, Tom Idema, Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism, Routledge, page 14:

     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.