Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn

Maarten Franssen isassociate professor at the Section of Philosophy at Delft University ofTechnology. His research interests include the relation between philosophy oftechnology and philosophy of science, the nature of normativity in relation toartefacts and their use, the metaphysics of artefacts, the analysis oftechnology as concerned with instrumental and sociotechnical systems, and theanalysis of design as decision-making and its problems.Pieter Vermaas isassociate professor at the Department of Philosophy at Delft University ofTechnology. His research in the philosophy of technology includes analyses ofthe concepts of technical function and of technical artefacts, and morerecently the study of the structure, aims, and validation of design methods anddesign thinking. He co-edits the journal Design Science, and edits two bookseries: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, and Design ResearchFoundations. www.pietervermaas.nlPeter Kroes is fullprofessor at the Department of Philosophy of Technology at Delft University ofTechnology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology arethe dual nature of technical artefacts and the philosophy of engineeringdesign. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn in thephilosophy of technology. http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethicsphilosophy-of-technology/staff/profdrir-pa-peter-kroes/Anthonie Meijers is fullprofessor at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics of Eindhoven University ofTechnology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology arethe theory of artefacts, agency and artefacts, and the epistemology oftechnology. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn inthe philosophy of technology and the editor in chief of the Handbook Philosophyof Technology and Engineering Sciences (2009).