Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

Technology is pervasive in science and in everyday life. To be sure, it has always been. And yet, a special class of technologies – namely digital technologies – are making this pervasiveness also radical. Radical in the way we understand the world, ourselves, and the relation between the two. This, in a nutshell, reconstructs one of the goals of the philosophy of information (PI). In this talk, I spell out the stance PI takes towards digital technologies and explore its possible extension to ‘philsci’ questions. I sketch an account of techno-scientific practices and investigate two ideas: (i) the prospects of a process-based (rather than entity-based) ontology, and (ii) the poietic role of technologies in the construction of knowledge.