Challenges for a Pragmatic Philosophy of New Technologies
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Challenges for a Pragmatic Philosophy of New Technologies Hans Lenk1 Received: 29 April 2019 / Accepted: 19 July 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract An epistemology mainly oriented at a philosophical discussion of natural sciences and technology is sketched out on the basis of the author’s “methodological schemeinterpretationism” combining a realistic and a perspectival pragmatic approach. - In the main part, 12 characteristic features of the New Technologies are presented and discussed as, e.g., operationalization, computerization, models and modularity, virtuality and artificiality, interdisciplinary interaction, comprehensive and complex systems, telematization and remote control, robotics and AI technology and automatization as well as “socio-eco-techno-systems”, technology-driven globalization and the respective problems of individual and social responsibility. - Also, actual trends are listed and future tasks for the international ecological cooperation of states, UN and UNESCO bodies under urgent guidelines of humanitarian values and “practical/ concrete humanity” are recommended. Keywords Pragmatic methodology · Techno-science · Intelligent · New Technologies · Systems dynamics and engineering · Socio-eco-techno-systems · Ecology · Globalization · Social responsibility · Concrete humanity
1 Some Trends in Exact Philosophy The twentieth century turned out to be one of the most dynamic and at the same time most dreadful centuries on this planet due to European nationalism and, in the wake of that, wars and international political developments of an extremely dynamic and far reaching character. In the following, some main areas and tasks are outlined that may turn out to be most pressing for pragmatic philosophy of the so-called “New Technologies”. In theoretical philosophy it is not just single historical events, but, in a sense, scientific as well as technical and industrial developments that have most notably had an impact on our lives in today’s world and also most strongly on philosophy. * Hans Lenk [email protected] 1
Karlsruhe, Germany
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Axiomathes
Regarding the latter, one first has to mention the great successes of the exact sciences and so-called “MINT” fields (e.g. axiomatization in mathematics, computer science = information technology, natural sciences like physics, but also general technology as well as specific branches as geo- and biotechnology etc.). Already in the last century there were foundational discussions of the sciences— especially in physics owing to the detailed elaboration of the theories of General Relativity and Quantum mechanics in examination of led to the differentiated development of philosophy of science and analytical philosophy whose aims are precision and exactness (e.g. logical neo-empiricism in the Vienna Circle). Generally speaking, modern analytic philosophy would not have been possible without the precise development of axiomatic methods, without the discovery of the mathematical and logical antinomies (e.g. Russell’s against Frege
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