Track 2.e Introduction: Design Innovation and Philosophy of Technology, the Practical Turn

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Woutera EGGINK ◽  
Steven DORRESTIJN
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Design Innovation ◽  
Empirical Turn ◽  
Philosophical Frameworks

Human-technology relations are one of the key issues in design innovation and the shaping of our future. Also in the Philosophy of Technology human-technology relations are a central theme. New insights in the complex interplay between humans and technology can be gained from collaboration between Design and Philosophy of Technology, especially in the current of the so-called ‘empirical turn’ where the focus is on individual technologies and real-world contexts. Design Innovation can use the frameworks of philosophers to theorize the findings from practice or to make sense of past developments. And designing actual things provides a powerful laboratory to test philosophical frameworks in practice. Through the collaboration between design innovation and philosophy these conceptual frameworks can become ‘practical’. Therefore, in analogy with the empirical turn in philosophy of technology before, the further step of the present collaboration with design is termed a ‘practical turn’.

Regulations and Norms for Reuse of Residual Clinical Biospecimens and Health Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 019394592110292
Author(s):  
Elizabeth E. Umberfield ◽  
Sharon L. R. Kardia ◽  
Yun Jiang ◽  
Andrea K. Thomer ◽  
Marcelline R. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Real World ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Federal Regulations ◽  
Secondary Research ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Key Issues

Nurse scientists are increasingly interested in conducting secondary research using real world collections of biospecimens and health data. The purposes of this scoping review are to (a) identify federal regulations and norms that bear authority or give guidance over reuse of residual clinical biospecimens and health data, (b) summarize domain experts’ interpretations of permissions of such reuse, and (c) summarize key issues for interpreting regulations and norms. Final analysis included 25 manuscripts and 23 regulations and norms. This review illustrates contextual complexity for reusing residual clinical biospecimens and health data, and explores issues such as privacy, confidentiality, and deriving genetic information from biospecimens. Inconsistencies make it difficult to interpret, which regulations or norms apply, or if applicable regulations or norms are congruent. Tools are necessary to support consistent, expert-informed consent processes and downstream reuse of residual clinical biospecimens and health data by nurse scientists.

Ten Paradoxes of Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Feenberg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Causal Laws ◽  
Technological World

Though we may be competent at using many technologies, most of what we think we know about technology in general is false. Our error stems from the everyday conception of things as separate from each other and from us. In reality technologies belong to an interconnected network the nodes of which cannot exist independently qua technologies. What is more we tend to see technologies as quasi-natural objects, but they are just as much social as natural, just as much determined by the meanings we give them as by the causal laws that rule over their powers. The errors of common sense have political consequences in domains such as, development, medicine and environmental policy. In this paper I summarize many of the conclusions philosophy of technology has reached reflecting on the reality of our technological world. These conclusions appear as paradoxes judged from our everyday perspective.This paper presents a philosophy of technology. It draws on what we have learnt in the last 30 years as we abandoned old Heideggerian and positivist notions and faced the real world of technology. It turns out that most of our common sense ideas about technology are wrong. This is why I have put my ten propositions in the form of paradoxes, although I use the word loosely here to refer to the counter-intuitive nature of much of what we know about technology.

Masters of the Universe: Power and Elites in Organization Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael I. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Hybrid Governance ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Universe

Elite analysis has re-emerged as a central theme in contemporary organization studies. This paper builds on recent contributions to this revitalized field by developing a distinctive theoretical approach and substantive agenda for the study of power relations and elite ruling in organization studies. By drawing on a realist/materialist ontology and a neo-Weberian analytical framework, the paper identifies the idea of ‘command situations’ as the key concept for identifying changing mechanisms and forms of elite domination and control in contemporary socio-political orders. Three case histories are subsequently discussed in order to provide illustrative examples of the way in which this analytical framework can enhance our understanding of the complex interplay between ‘institutional’ and ‘interstitial’ power as it shapes the emergence of hybrid governance regimes through which contemporary regimes of elite domination and rule become organized.

scholarly journals Beyond the Empirical Turn: Elements for an Ontology of Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Agostino Cera
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Final Outcome ◽  
The Self ◽  
Nominative Case ◽  
Positive Science ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Empirical Turn

This paper aims to sketch a critical historicisation of the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology. After presenting Achterhuis’s definition of the empirical turn, I show how its final outcome is an ontophobic turn, i.e. a rejection of Heidegger’s legacy. Such a rejection culminates in the Mr Wolfe Syndrome, the metamorphosis of the philosophy of technology into a positive science which, in turn, depends on an engineerisation/problematisation of reality, i.e. the eclipse of the difference between ‘problem’ and ‘question’. My objection is that if Technology as such becomes nothing, then the paradoxical accomplishment of the empirical turn is the self-suppression of the philosophy of technology. As a countermovement, I propose an ontophilic turn, i.e. the establishment of a philosophy of technology in the nominative case whose first step consists in a Heidegger renaissance.

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Team Research ◽  
Key Issues

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, second edition, presents a comprehensive retrospective and prospective review of the field of qualitative research. Original, accessible chapters written by interdisciplinary leaders in the field make this a critical reference work. Filled with robust examples from real-world research; ample discussion of the historical, theoretical, and methodological foundations of the field; and coverage of key issues including data collection, interpretation, representation, assessment, and teaching, this handbook aims to be a valuable text for students, professors, and researchers. This newly revised and expanded edition features up-to-date examples and topics, including seven new chapters on duoethnography, team research, writing ethnographically, creative approaches to writing, writing for performance, writing for the public, and teaching qualitative research.

Science Fiction Futures and (Re)visions of the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia D. Gibson ◽  
Kyle Powys Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Mass Extinctions ◽  
Technological Risk ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Climate Crisis

This chapter discusses how humans envision futures, especially environmental futures, including the climate crisis, the Anthropocene, and mass extinctions. Although the philosophy of technology has traditionally examined the forecasting of technological risk and arguments about whether to embrace or reject the growth of technological mediation of human lives, the field has yet to fully investigate environmental futurisms and imagination. To begin a conversation for the philosophy of technology, philosophies of science fiction narrative discuss the different roles that imagination plays in projecting our concerns with the present onto futures that have not occurred and future generations who are not yet living. One of the key issues that the chapter explores is how science fiction imagination is based on assumptions and values about the history of technological change, including industrialization, capitalism, and colonialism. These issues reveal ways in which technology, future narrative, and climate justice are related.

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