what is the philosophy of technology?

Answer 1

Technology was and continues to be created to do the necessary survival as well as just plain tedious things so that we can spend more time and mental energy on improving ourselves as a whole.

Case in point: there is a colony of monkeys in Tibet that the native people have more or less adopted. The people feed the monkeys daily and keep predators away.

The monkeys, freed up from spending most of their time and energy finding food and avoiding predators, have started doing some very non-monkey-like things. Some have made primitive "dolls" out of leaves and rocks to play with. Some have used other rocks and various discarded items and bang them together in different ways to create "music."

Naturally, humans are not monkeys, but the point is the same. Free from doing what HAS to be done leads to what CAN be done.

Answer 2

It's a marginal field in the philosophic tradition. The discussion centers around the meaning of the Greek concept "techne" as a type of knowledge, which corresponds to Aristotle's efficient cause; whether instrumentality is a force of domination, preventing human freedom, or a point of optimism; what role humans have in the implementation and use of technology; and what socio-dynamic implications utility-tself has on various instutuions.

An understanding of critical theory is par for the course.
The most relevant lineage: Heidegger→Marcuse→Feenberg. Although many have commented, and given more than cursory investigations into the issue.

Related topics include critiques of science, knowledge, human agency, totalitarianism, late-capitalism, AI, post-humanism, media studies, digital media.

Answer 3

The philosophy of technology is...........
to get machines and implements to do what we have to do and thereby free time for ourselves to do what we should perhaps not do!!