Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn

Maarten Franssen isassociate professor at the Section of Philosophy at Delft University ofTechnology. His research interests include the relation between philosophy oftechnology and philosophy of science, the nature of normativity in relation toartefacts and their use, the metaphysics of artefacts, the analysis oftechnology as concerned with instrumental and sociotechnical systems, and theanalysis of design as decision-making and its problems.Pieter Vermaas isassociate professor at the Department of Philosophy at Delft University ofTechnology. His research in the philosophy of technology includes analyses ofthe concepts of technical function and of technical artefacts, and morerecently the study of the structure, aims, and validation of design methods anddesign thinking. He co-edits the journal Design Science, and edits two bookseries: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, and Design ResearchFoundations. www.pietervermaas.nlPeter Kroes is fullprofessor at the Department of Philosophy of Technology at Delft University ofTechnology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology arethe dual nature of technical artefacts and the philosophy of engineeringdesign. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn in thephilosophy of technology. http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethicsphilosophy-of-technology/staff/profdrir-pa-peter-kroes/Anthonie Meijers is fullprofessor at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics of Eindhoven University ofTechnology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology arethe theory of artefacts, agency and artefacts, and the epistemology oftechnology. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn inthe philosophy of technology and the editor in chief of the Handbook Philosophyof Technology and Engineering Sciences (2009).

• 1. Introduction (Maarten Franssen).- 2. Towards a Constructive Philosophy and Ethicsof Technology (PhilipBrey).- 3. The Policy Turn in the Philosophy of Technology (Adam Briggle).- 4. Function and Meaning (Andrew Feenberg).- 5. How to Situate and Anchor ThePhilosophy of Technology in The Landscape of Philosophy? (Maarten Franssen).- 6. Technology as a Practical Art (Sven OveHansson).- 7. Values inDesign: Towards a Further Integration of Empirical and Normative Considerations(Rafaela Hillerbrand).- 8. PerovskitePhilosophy. A Branch-Formation Model of Application-Oriented Science (WyboHoukes).- 9. Toward an AxiologicalTurn in the Philosophy of Technology (Peter Kroes) .- 10.  Composition and Handoff in Socio-technologies (DeirdreK. Mulligan).- 11. For theBenefit of Humanity: Micro-, Meso-, Macro-, and Meta-Values in Engineering (ByronNewberry).- 12. Science vs. Technology: Difference or Identity? (Ilkka Niiniluoto).- 13. ChangingPerspectives: From the Experimental tothe Technological Turn in History andPhilosophy of Science (Alfred Nordmann).- 14. What the Future will Bring (Joseph C. Pitt).- 15. Function and Finitism (Pablo Schyfter).- 16. An Empirical Turnin Ethics of Technology: On the Possibility of Using Empirical Data in TheEthics of Technology and Engineering (Benham Taebi).- 17. The Empirical Turn in Ethics (Ibo van de Poel).- 18. TheEngineering Turn in Conceptual Analysis (Pieter E. Vermaas).- 19. An Empirical Based Classification ofEngineering Projects (Sjoerd D. Zwart).