Using Words and Things: Language and Philosophy of Technology

by Mark Coeckelbergh

Book Overview

This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology-that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are-is re-thought in a way that accounts for the role of language in human technological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367595028
• ISBN13: 9780367595029
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"