Description: Interpreting Technology puts Ricoeur's work at the center of contemporary philosophical thinking concerning technology. It investigates his project of critical hermeneutics, the growing ethical and political impacts of technologies on the modern lifeworld, and ways of analyzin...
Brief description: Mark Coeckelbergh is a philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He also has an affiliation as Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK (staff page). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, the Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media, the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, and Kairos, Journal of Philosophy & Science. He is the author of the books Liberation and Passion (2002), The Metaphysics of Autonomy (2004), Imagination and Principles (2007), Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), Environmental Skill (2015), Money Machines (2015), New Romantic Cyborgs (2017), Using Words and Things (2017), Moved by Machines (2019), and numerous articles in the area of ethics and technology, including ICT and robotics and technology in medicine and health care.
Review Quotes: "This ambitious volume exploits Ricouer's hermeneutics to develop essential guidance to our interpreting multiple dimensions of our lives and concerns vis-à-vis technology broadly and specific technologies such as AI and social media. Going well beyond central schools in contemporary philosophy of technology, such as postphenomenology and the Frankfurt School, it thereby enables us to better respond to these concerns in more ethical and genuinely emancipatory directions. Individual chapters, encapsulated by the editors' overarching insights, offer a rich tapestry of critique, insight, and foundations for most promising new directions in philosophy of technology." --Charles M. Ess, professor emeritus, University of Oslo