Publications
Technology and the good society
- Author(s)
- Mark Coeckelbergh
- Abstract
How can we best theorize technology and the good society? This essay responds to this issue by showing how our assumptions about the meaning of the social and the political influence our evaluations of the impact of new technologies on society, and how, conversely, new technologies also shape the concepts we use to evaluate them. In the course of the analysis, the essay offers a polemic that questions individualist approaches to the good society and individualist assumptions about the social, especially in the analytic-individualist traditions and in postphenomenology, and recommends that more philosophers of technology use the resources of political philosophy to tackle the challenge of understanding and evaluating technology and society.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Philosophy
- Journal
- Technology in Society
- Volume
- 52
- Pages
- 4-9
- No. of pages
- 6
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2016.12.002
- Publication date
- 12-2016
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603122 Philosophy of technology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Business and International Management, Sociology and Political Science
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/technology-and-the-good-society(dbd6c004-1596-4c71-96f6-cb82078fad66).html