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Technology and Human Nature
1993
We are currently faced with an almost uncontrolled acceleration in the expansion of various technologies. This enormous expansion influences human beings in different ways. Technology can modify existing capabilities, create new ones, and even eliminate abilities that existed previously. Technology thus has numerous repercussions on human nature.
Philosophy and Technology in the French Tradition. The Legacy of François Dagognet
2018
In opposition to philosophers focused on the intimacy of the subject, a number of French philosophers were more concerned with understanding the objective world as it is, and as we built it. In this respect, technology as an historical process, ending up in a set of objects and practices, affords a worthwhile ground for developing such world-oriented philosophical reflections. This paper provides a survey of this philosophical landscape with a special emphasis on the pro-eminent role of Francois Dagognet who pioneered a material and object philosophy in France.