Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

DOI

10.5840/techne201311141

Publication Title

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volume

17

Issue

2

Abstract

Philosophers of technology are not playing the public role which our own theoretical perspectives motivate us to take. A great variety of theories and perspectives within philosophy of technology, including those of Marcuse, Feenberg, Borgmann, Ihde, Michelfelder, Bush, Winner, Latour, and Verbeek, either support or directly call for various sorts of intervention—a call that we have failed to adequately heed. Barriers to such intervention are discussed, and three proposals for reform are advanced: (1) post-publication peer-reviewed reprinting of public philosophy, (2) increased emphasis on true open access publication, and (3) increased efforts to publicize and adapt traditional academic research.

Original Publication Citation

Wittkower, Dylan E., Evan Selinger and Lucinda Rush. "Public Philosophy of Technology." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17, no. 2 (2013). doi: 10.5840/techne201311141

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