Toward a philosophy of technosciences

Vers une philosophie des technosciences

Bernadette Bensaude Vincent (1) , Sacha Loeve (2)

1 CETCOPRA - Centre d'étude des techniques, des connaissances et des pratiques
2 IRPhiL - Institut de recherches philosophiques de Lyon

The term " technoscience " gained philosophical significance in the 1970s but it aroused ambivalent views. On the one hand, several scholars have used it to shed light on specific features of recent scientific research, especially with regard to emerging technologies that blur boundaries (such as natural/artificial, machine/living being, knowing/making and so on); on the other hand, as a matter of fact " technoscience " did not prompt great interest among philosophers. In the French area, a depreciative meaning prevails: " technoscience " means the contamination of science by management and capitalism. Some even argue that " technoscience " is not a concept at all, just a buzzword. In this chapter, on the contrary, we make the case for the constitution of a philosophical concept of technoscience based on the characterization of its objects in order to scrutinize their epistemological, ontological, political and ethical dimensions.

Mots clés: epistemology; values in science and technology; history and philosophy of technoscience; design; ethics; objects; philosophy of technology; ontology; technoscience; science and technology studies

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Sacha Loeve. Toward a philosophy of technosciences. Sacha Loeve; Xavier Guchet; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. French philosophy of technology : classical readings and contemporary approaches., 29, Springer, pp.169-186, 2018, Philosophy of engineering and technology, 978-3-319-89518-5. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-89518-5_11⟩. ⟨hal-01820186v2⟩