Process Philosophy and Technology New Directions

Table of Contents 

Acknowledgements 

List of Contributors 

1. Towards a Process Philosophy of Technology Mark Thomas Young & Mark Coeckelbergh 

Section 1. Process and Technology 

2. Technology as Process Mark Coeckelbergh 

3. Process-Ontological Tools for Philosophy of Technology: Some Applications of General Process Theory Johanna Seibt 

Section 2. Production and Maintenance of Artifacts 

4. What if Means to Say that Artifacts are Processes: Maintenance, History and Politics Mark Thomas Young 

5. Remembering with Things: Processes, Technology, and Material Memory Ronald Durán Allimant 

Section 3. French Perspectives on Process and Technology 

6. The Grounds of Becoming – Gilbert Simondon’s Theory of Operations and Individuation Jacqueline Bellon 

7. Two Technics: Between Stiegler and Simondon Thomas Keating 

8. Technological innovation as Ontogenetic Process: Critical Engagements with Simondon’s Concept of Technical Evolution Vincent Blok 

9.  Technicity and Intuition: Methodological Reflections for a Process Philosophy of Technology Johannes Schick 

Section 4. Technology, Politics and Values 

10. Bernard Stiegler’s Process Philosophy of Technology and the Automation of Liberal Institutions Conor Heaney and Connal Parsley

11. Becoming Political with Technology: Dissecting the Process Turn with Arendt Anthony Longo 

12. Moral Techniques, Or, How to Use Technology Morally, Epistemically Metaphysically Willy Penn and Morgan Thompson 

Section 5. Digital Technologies  

13. From Abstraction to the Concrete: Algorithms as Transductive Processes Michael O’Hara 

14. For a Process Philosophy of Technology: Pierce’s Pragmatist Approach Simone Bernardi della Rosa and Maria Regina Brioschi 

Section 6. Environment and Sustainability 

15. Damaged-World-Objects: Eco-Theories of Technology in Serres and Whitehead Timothy Barker 

16. Process Philosophy and Technology Made Compossible: Crealectics and the Case of Energy Systems Luis de Miranda 

Biography

Mark Thomas Young is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oslo. His research covers two fields: the Philosophy of Technology, where he focuses on practices of maintenance and the use of automating technologies, and the History and Philosophy of Science, where he explores instruments, craft practices and tacit knowledge in the early modern period. He is the co-editor, with Mark Coeckelbergh, of Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going (Routledge, 2024).

Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He was President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and is the author of numerous publications including Environmental Skill, AI Ethics, Self-Improvement, and The Political Philosophy of AI.

“A timely and extensive contribution to the growing exploration of the relevance of process philosophy to contemporary concerns.”

David Kreps, University of Galway, Ireland

“This volume deftly bridges the gap between process philosophy and science and technology studies, providing a much-needed analysis of how process thought can be used to make sense of how artefacts change across time. Combining rigour with accessibility, it promises to be an essential resource for scholars in metaphysics, design studies, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies.”

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, University of Groningen, The Netherlands