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General philosophy of technology
University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy, Technology and Society
Philosophy has been taught at Aberdeen since King's College was founded in 1495. Many distinguished philosophers have taught here, including Thomas Reid, the founder and leading member of the eighteenth-century Scottish school of Common Sense Philosophy, who had a European reputation in his own lifetime and now is studied throughout the world; and Alexander Bain, in the late nineteenth century, whose studies in the philosophy of mind helped to lay the foundations for modern scientific psychology.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/cpts/cpts.hti
Philosopher’s Information Center
The Philosopher's Information Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving philosophers. Since the Center's founding in 1967, its most important service to the philosophical community has been the production of The Philosopher's Index. The Philosopher's Index is a current, comprehensive, and easy-to-use subject and author index to: Philosophical articles, books, anthologies and contributions to anthologies. The Philosopher's Index is available in either printed or electronic format. The Index includes more than 622 regularly indexed current journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. In addition to the subject and author indexes, each issue or edition includes a book review index.
Actor Network Theory
Page developed by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/act_net.html
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)
The purpose of CAPPE is to conduct ground-breaking research, provide policy input and promote community discussion and professional dialogue in relation to these and other important and pressing matters of public and political concern. CAPPE constitutes the largest concentration of philosophers working on applied philosophy and public ethics in Australia, and one of the largest such concentrations in the international philosophical community.
The Centre also brings together the complementary strengths of both the former Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics (CPAE), Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the former Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues (CPPI), University of Melbourne (UM) as well as extensive industry/professional contacts.
http://www.cappe.edu.au/index.htm
Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science (CEPTES)
The Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science (CEPTES) of the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente, exists to promote scholarship and research in the philosophy of technology and engineering science, and to encourage scholarly exchanges between philosophy, engineering science, and social science. The Center is dedicated to bridge the gulf between the humanities and engineering sciences, and to helping to develop and disseminate a philosophical understanding of technology and engineering science and their impact on society.
Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP)
Welcome to the homepage of the Paideia Project On-Line. Here you have access to the nearly 1000 papers presented at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, and also order the 12 print volumes from the Philosophy Documentation Center. You can also order the latest publication of the Paiedeia Project from Rowman & Littlefield, namely, Educating for Democracy: Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty.
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/index.html
Texas Tech University National Institute of Engineering Ethics (NIEE)
In October 2001, with approvals of the NIEE Board of Directors and the Texas Tech University Board of Regents, the Presidents of NIEE and TTU signed an agreement for Texas Tech University (TTU) to provide a permanent home and assume financial, administrative, management and leadership responsibilities of the Institute..
Viewed as a cooperative effort among many engineering organizations with potential for far-reaching influence and impact, NIEE can and should bridge the various disciplines within the engineering profession.
University Commitment to NIEE: In order to assure the success of NIEE, in 2001, Texas Tech President and Engineering Dean jointly made a five-year commitment of major funding for NIEE operating and development efforts. Recently, in 2005, Texas Tech Provost William Marcy extended and significantly increased the university commitment and made it more permanent. This recent commitment is to encourage and support engineering ethics by providing funds to hire a full time director of NIEE. This position is part of the university Quality Enhancement Plan.
Mission and Purpose: The name shall remain the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (also known as the Institute) and it will remain a recognizable entity with an unchanged purpose within the non-profit status of the University. The mission and purpose of NIEE remains unchanged with this transition, but the Institute has changed from a “dues-paying membership type” organization to a “ethics programs and projects type” organization where individuals, companies, universities, and engineering societies can support projects that they view important to the profession, with either time or funding or both.
http://www.niee.org/murdoughCenter/
The University of Science and Philosophy: Open University of Russell
In 1949, Lao and Walter Russell founded this unique home-study university, open to any student from any walk of life anywhere in the world.
http://www.philosophy.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=28
Twente University Department of Philosophy
The CENTER includes all research in philosophy of technology performed by the Department of Philosophy, and any research at the intersection of philosophy and engineering done by other UT groups. The Department's research program (currently titled The Transformative Power of Technology) will be embedded in the Center. This program focuses on issues in philosophy and ethics of biomedical technology, philosophy and ethics of information and communication technology, technology ethics, philosophy of design, philosophy of engineering science and philosophy of art and technology. It contains two subprograms included in CTIT and BMTI and includes several projects, including a VIDI project “philosophy of engineering science,” a VENI project “Technology and the Matter of Morality,” and several NWO-funded projects in philosophy of technology, including a project in the philosophy of genomics.
http://www.gw.utwente.nl/wijsb/
University of Bristol Department of Philosophy
We are a friendly, active department, with an established reputation for excellence in teaching and research. With 13 permanent members of staff, we are larger than many philosophy departments in the UK. Our interests cover a wide range of topics within the Analytic or Anglo-American philosophical tradition.
The principal research areas of the department are: Philosophy and history of science (including logic and mathematics); Philosophy of psychology, mind and language, and epistemology; Ethics and political philosophy.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/
University of Liverpool Department of Philosophy
The Liverpool Philosophy Department has a long-standing commitment to philosophical activity of the highest quality in a distinctive variety of areas, traditions and styles.
There are three clusters of research activity: ancient philosophy and comparative philosophy of religion, moral and political philosophy metaphysics and philosophy of language.
More specifically, staff has published in;
Ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy, Neoplatonism), the philosophy of religion, Buddhism, and Indian Philosophy; Moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, environmental philosophy and modern continental philosophy; The main areas of analytic philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of language, logic, mathematics, science, and mind
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html
University of Toronto: Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) is a graduate studies and research institute offering MA and PhD degrees. The main areas of faculty expertise are: history of medicine and biological sciences, history of mathematics and physical sciences, history of technology, general philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of physics and philosophy of mathematics.
TU Delft Department of Philosophy
The mission of the Philosophy section is to contribute to the professional and academic education of future engineers and to conduct research into philosophical problems related to modern technology and its impact on society.
The first part of the mission is accomplished by providing service teaching on foundational and normative issues for all engineering programs at the University of Technology Delft. The main topics of these courses are ethics and engineering, philosophy of science and technology, and argumentation and critical thinking. The Philosophy section has specifically been entrusted the task of developing and introducing required courses in ethics and engineering in all the university’s engineering programs by the board of directors of the university.
Through its research the Philosophy section aims to contribute to ongoing debates about the nature of modern technology and its role in society. Its research program focuses on foundational and methodological problems with respect to technology, e.g. the nature of technical artifacts and technological systems as socio-technical systems, and ethical problems in the design, development and implementation of technology, notably ethical problems related to technological risks.
http://www.fil.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=4271b860-f8b1-4ef6-b67f-7a9714f9d075&lang=en
TU Delft - Research project "The Dual nature of Artefacts"
It is a general observation about and in philosophy that though we are immersed in a world of technical artifacts, we still lack a thorough philosophical account of technical artifacts and the process of producing them. This lack of an adequate philosophical analysis of artifacts may even be generalized to the analysis of what we call ‘technology’. Technology has been regarded variously in philosophy as a collection of artifacts, as a form of human action, as a form of knowledge and as a social process. These widely different conceptions indicate that the philosophy of technology is a field of inquiry that does not yet have a fundamental set of concepts and categories with which to analyze its main subject. It is the aim of this program to develop such a philosophical foundation and to show how the different conceptions that have been given so far are interconnected. The notions of technical function and design, both basic notions of engineering practice, are considered to be central to this undertaking:
The aim of the program is to analyze and develop basic concepts and categories that are necessary for understanding modern technology, first of all the central notions of technical function and engineering design, and to integrate them into a coherent conceptual framework.
http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=dcff3c71-ab51-46bf-8917-80ba782f6ea6&lang=en
TU Eindhoven Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
Our current research focuses on four main areas, namely: Design, risks and moral values, the modeling and design of sociotechnical systems (see also the research programme Moral Responsibility in R&D Networks), agency and artifacts, technological knowledge and technological rationality (see also the research programme Norms in Knowledge).
http://w3.tm.tue.nl/en/subdepartments/aw/research/philosophyethics_of_technology/
The Society for Philosophy and Technology
The Society for Philosophy and Technology is an independent international organization that encourages, supports and facilitates philosophically significant considerations of technology. Founded in 1976, the Society is dedicated to the pluralistic exploration of technology, and welcomes a variety of philosophical and other disciplinary approaches in both its conferences and its publications. The Society publishes Techné (a bi-annual journal), the proceedings of its international conferences, and the quarterly SPT Newsletter.
http://www.pdcnet.org/member-spt.html
Philosophy, Technology and the Environment
These are resource for philosophical reflection on technology and environmental issues.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/techenv/
Links to Literature:
Journals:
Techné: Research in philosophy and technology:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
American Philosophy of Technology:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=20579