A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Technology and Ideas

Extending its research heuristics, SCOT also implies “ideas about technology”: the recognition that “technologies could have been otherwise” by denying a determining internal logic in technology development, the socially constructed nature of even technology’s obduracy, the key role that technological frames (and thus the cultural values and social rules that are embedded therein) play. Such ideas, then, generate questions that constitute core issues in the philosophy of technology, even if they will not be spelled out here.