Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology

Founding Members

Darryl Cressman

Darryl Cressman

Assistant Professor

Darryl Cressman is a philosopher of technology working in the tradition of the humanities and the social sciences. He completed his PhD at Simon Fraser University and his research and teaching draws on a variety of disciplines and traditions, including  Science and Technology Studies (STS), media theory, the history of technology, critical theory, and political economy.

Relevant Publications

Cressman, D. (ed.) (2022). The Necessity of Critique. Andrew Feenberg and the Philosophy of Technology. Springer.

Cressman, D. (2022). “A Short Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology,” in Swierstra, Lemmens, Sharon, & Vermaas (eds.), The Technical Condition: The Entanglement of Technology, Culture and Society. Amsterdam: Boom Publishing, pp.43-75.

Cressman, D. (2020). Contingency and Potential. Reconsidering a Dialectical Philosophy of Technology. Techné, 24(1/2), 138-157.

 

Massimiliano Simons

Massimiliano Simons

Assistant Professor

Massimiliano Simons is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology at Maastricht University and a voluntary staff member at the Institute of Philosophy (HIW) at the KU Leuven.  After a MA in Philosophy (KU Leuven, 2014) and a MSc in Sociology (KU Leuven, 2015) he started a PhD in philosophy (funded by FWO) at the Institute of Philosophy at the KU Leuven in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Paul Cortois. He defended his PhD in 2019, entitled “The Raven and the Trojan Horse: Constructing Nature in Synthetic Biology“. It focused on the recent emerging discipline of synthetic biology, which aims to understand life by synthesising it in the lab, and how to understand this discipline in the light of constructivist claims in philosophy of science.

Relevant Publications

Potters, J. & Simons, M. (2023). We have never been ‘new experimentalists’: On the rise and fall of the turn to experimentation in the 1980s. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 13(1), 91-119.

Simons, M. (2022). Jean-François Lyotard and Postmodern Technoscience. Philosophy & Technology.

Simons, M. (2022). Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology, and Quasi-Objects. Bloomsbury Press.

Simons, M. (2018). The Janus head of Bachelard’s phenomenotechnique: From purification to proliferation and back. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8(3), 689-707.

Steering Committee

Federica Buongiorno

Assistant Professor

Federica Buongiorno is an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology of Technology at the University of Florence, Italy, and a Visiting Fellow (2020-2024) at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology, the philosophy of technology (with a special focus on AI, algorithmic thinking and the digital turn), and the contemporary theories of knowledge.

Relevant Publications

Among her latest publications: “Do We Really Need a ‘Digital Humanism’? A Critique Based on Post-human Philosophy of Technology and Socio-legal Techniques” (with Xenia Chiaramonte). Journal of Responsible Technology, 18 (2024); “Can Algorithms Be Embodied? A Phenomenological Perspective on the Relationship between Algorithmic Thinking and the Life-World”. Foundations of Science, 28 (2023); “Beyond Efficiency: Comparing Andrew Feenberg’s and Byung-Chul Han’s Philosophy of Technology”. In: Darryl Cressman (ed.). The Necessity of Critique. Andrew Feenberg and the Philosophy of Technology, Springer (2022).

Click here for a complete list of her publications.

 

Francois-Xavier Guchet

Professor

Xavier Guchet is Professor of the Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the Université de technologie de Compiègne. He has written extensively on various topics in the philosophy of technology, including work on Gilbert Simondon, Hans Jonas, and André Leroi-Gourhan.

In many of his publications, he examines contemporary technosciences from the perspective of French philosophical traditions and bases philosophical analyses on detailed descriptions of technoscientific objects, such as nano-objects and biomarkers in personalized genomic medicine.

Relevant Publications

Among his latest publications:  “Leroi-Gourhan and the Object of Technology.” Technology and Language, 5(2) (2024),
116-124; “‘Technological Object’ in Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy: One Word, Three Different Meanings.” Philosophy Today (Celina), 63(3) (2019), 705–716; and “Towards an Object-Oriented Philosophy of Technology”, 237-256. In: Loeve, S., Bensaude-Vincent, B., & Guchet, X. (2018). French Philosophy of Technology. Springer.

Click here for a complete list of his publications.

Carl Mitcham

Emeritus Professor

Carl Mitcham is Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines. Regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of the Philosophy of Technology, Carl published the “Bibliography of the Philosophy of Technology” in 1973 and was instrumental in the founding of the Society of the Philosophy of Technology in 1975. He has published books on the history of the philosophy of technology, engineering ethics, and most recently, political philosophy of technology.

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Please visit Carl’s homepage at Colorado School of Mines.

Members

Pietro Carreras

Piero Carreras is a PhD student at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. His areas of interest are Philosophy of Technology, Phenomenology, Philosophical Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology.

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Agostino Cera

Agostino Cera is an assistant professor at the University of Ferrara. He works on  Philosophy of Technology, Applied Ethics, Social Philosophy and STS.

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Ilaria Fornacciari

Ilaria Fornacciari is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University (Brno). She is particularly interested in Feminist Philosophy of Technology, Media Archaeology, Affective Technology, and Post-Humanism.

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Aafke Fraaije

Aafke Fraaije is a post-doctoral researcher at TU Delft. Her area of expertise is the Empirical Turn.

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Salvador Suniaga Hernàndez

Salvador Suniaga Hernàndez is a Technical Director at SolidIndustry. His areas of expertise include Techno-anthropology, , LATAM philosophers, Philosophy of Technology and Phenomenology.

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Christoph Hubatschke

Christoph Hubatschke is a post-doctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Transformation University of Linz. His research interests include Political Philosophy of Technology, new technologies (humanoid robotics, AI, Human-computer interactions), Artistic research (contemporary dance and robotics), and Enlightenment of Philosophy of Technology.

Relevant Publications
  • “Minoritäre Technologien: eine deleuzo-guattarische Technikphilosophie”, Campus Verlag, 2024.
  •  “Technoecologies of borders: Thinking with borders as multispecies matters of care.” Feminist Technoecologies. Routledge, 2020. 45-59 (with Josef Barla). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2017.1466648.
  • “Visible Invisibility’ as Machinic Resistance”, in: Gray, Eloff (Ed.): Deleuze and Anarchism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2019).
  • “How to Dance with Robots”, in Assis, Giudici (Ed.): Machinic Assemblages of Desire. Deleuze and Artistic Research. Leuven: Leuven University Press., 209–222 (2021). Book Full text here.
Carlo Ierna

Carlo Ierna is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam whose research interests include Early phenomenology, the school of Brentano, History of AI, and cognitive sciences.

 

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Anthony Longo

Anthony Longo is a PhD student at the University of Antwerp. His research interests concern Political Theory of Technology, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Post-phenomenology.

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  • “Reversing the Primacy of Political Action: Thinking Politics and Technology with Arendt.” Arendt Studies 8, 89-113 (2024). DOI: 10.5840/arendtstudies20248759.
  • “(Re)Designing the Public Sphere? Doing Political Theory After the Empirical Turn.” Philosophy & Technology37:100 (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00788-y
  • “(Multi-)Stabilities of the Public Sphere: Why Arendt Needs Postphenomenology.” Human Studies 47, 591-612 (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s10746-024-09716-7
Brynn Catherine McNab

Brynn Cathrine McNab is a PhD student at the Concordia University in Montreal, where she works on Mathematics, Phenomenology, and Cybernetics.

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Cyrus Mody

Cyrus Mody is a professor at Maastricht University. His areas of expertise include Engineers’ Engagement with Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Technology during the Cold War and (early) STS.

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Daniel Nemenyi

Daniel Nemenyi is a visiting scholar from the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. His research interests include Modern European Philosophy, Internet Historiography, Cybernetics and Structuralism.

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Antonio Oraldi

Antonio Oraldi is a PhD candidate at the University of Lisbon at CFUL, where he works with the Praxis Research group (Praxis-CFUL). He works on Philosophy of Technology, Critical Social Theory, and Political Philosophy.

Relevant Publications
  • “Phantasy, Technology, Critique: On Bernard Stiegler’s Pharmacology of the Imagination”. I Castelli di Yale XII 2 (2024): 109-122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15160/2282-5460/2921
  • “Cyber-physical Environments and Political Subjects: Notes on Cyber-physical Citizenship”. In Technopolitics: charting the unknown. Brazil: Dialética, 2024.
  • “Technology and Society in Habermas’ Early Social Theory: Towards a Critical Theory of Technology beyond Instrumentalism”. Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 43 1 (2023): 66-84. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/krisis.43.1.37753
Moritz R. Pretzsch

Moritz R. Pretzsch is an MA researcher at the University of Kassel/LMU Munich. His research interests include Phenomenology, Analytic Philosophy, and Social Criticism. 

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Pietro Prunotto

Pietro Prunotto is a PhD student at the University of Turin (FINO). He is particularly interested in the thought of Spengler, Junger, Heidegger, Derrida, and Stiegler.

 

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Iason Spilios

Iason Spilios is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Athens. His areas of expertise include Phenomenology, Self-Knowledge, Philosophy of Technology, AI Ethics.

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Federico Testa

Federico Testa is a Lecturer in Sociology and Humanities at the University of East Anglia, as well as a Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. His areas of expertise include the critical philosophy of norms and the foundations of agency, as well as life, technique, and the vital aspects of technology.

Relevant Publications

  • “On the Politics of the Living. Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms”, Bloomsbury Publishing (2025). In press. 

  • “A Neglected Philosopher—Canguilhem Beyond Epistemology and the History of Science”, in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 307(1), 5-26 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/rip.307.0005.
  • “Foucault’s Epicureanism: Parrhēsia, Confession and the Genealogy of the Self”, in Arethusa, 56(3), 335-362 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2023.a917341.
Fabio Tollon

Fabio Tollon is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He is mostly interested in AI Ethics, and Moral Responsibility.

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Artistotle Tympas

Artistotle Tympas is a professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research includes Philosophy of Technology, Historiography of Technology, History of Philosophy of the environment & technology relationship, History of the Philosophy of AI.

 

Relevant Publications
  • “‘AI Can Be Analogous to Steam Power’ or from the ‘Postindustrial Society’ to the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: An Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence” (with Simos, Konstantis, Sakalis)  ICON: Journal of the International Committee of the History of Technology, no 1, 97-116 (2022). Article full text: test_icon
  •   ‘On the Hazardousness of the Concept ‘Technology’: Notes on a Conversation Between the History of Science and the History of Technology’, in Arabatzis, Renn, Simoes (ed.): Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu, Springer (2015), 329-342. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14553-2.
  • ‘Technological black boxing versus ecological reparation: From encased-industrial to open-renewable wind energy’, in Papadopoulos, Puig de la Bellacasa, & Tacchetti, (Eds.): Ecological Reparation. Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 362-377 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529239546.001.0001
Riccardo Valenti

Riccardo Valenti is an independent researcher. His areas of expertise include Phenomenology and the Empirical Turn.

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Maaike Van der Horst

Maaike Van der Horst is a PhD candidate at the University of Twente. She mainly works on Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Technology.

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Hannes van Engeland

Hannes van Engeland is a PhD candidate at the University of Maastricht. He’s currently working on French Epistemology, and the History of Philosophy of Science and Technology.

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Lufeng Xu

Lufeng Xu is a PhD candidate at L’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His main interests are Anthropology of Technology, and Philosophical Anthropology.

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