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Digitization – hopes and fears

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  • The Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology, hosted by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on the 12th and 13th of December 2019, drew around 50 scholars from philosophy, history, sociology and Science and Technology Studies

  • Many of the talks approached the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from socio-historical, epistemological or ethical perspective

  • History and philosophy of technology The philosophical legacy was revised with regard to current issues, for example by two reports discussing the “empirical turn” of the 1980s from different comparative perspectives

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The Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology, hosted by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on the 12th and 13th of December 2019, drew around 50 scholars from philosophy, history, sociology and Science and Technology Studies. History and philosophy of technology The philosophical legacy was revised with regard to current issues, for example by two reports discussing the “empirical turn” of the 1980s from different comparative perspectives. Cera argued for leaving space for the genuinely philosophical “Grundfrage”: the question of the historical or epochal phenomenon of technology as such.

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