[Revised entry by Maarten Franssen, Ibo van de Poel, Michael Klenk, and Filippo Santoni de Sio on July 10, 2026.
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If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Wilfrid Sellars (1962) put it, philosophy should definitely not ignore technology. It is largely by technology that contemporary society hangs together. It is hugely important not only as an economic force but also as a cultural and, increasingly, political force. Indeed during the last one and a half centuries, when it gradually emerged as a discipline, philosophy of…

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