Overcoming Substantivism-Determinism with Pragmatist Philosophy of Technology

Acta Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 8 (2):144-155 (2020)
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Carl Sagan famously lamented how “we live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster”. One might add that in contemporary societies, people know about the philosophy of science and technology even less.

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10.11590/abhps.2020.2.09

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Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
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