"What do philosophers need to know about technology? I mean, of course, philosophers who want to think and write about technology in fruitful ways. What kind of knowledge do we need to have? And how much?"
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(presidential address delivered to the Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, March 1991)
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