Philosophy of Technology notes

a) The process of decline. The scientific decline is claimed to have been in the Hellenistic period around 180 BC; some suggest that it was only after about 250 CE in the Greco-Roman era. Of course, not all research and ordinary metaphysical practice fell to a stop since the 2nd century B.C. However, senior research seems to have gone steam less in the late ancient ages. In general, activity was fewer overall, and the degree of experimental originality decreased over time. Intellectual work was...

Skolimowski explores the connection between technology to research. He believes that innovation is not research and that it is separate from practical science. According to Skolimowski, the distinction between science and technology is better understood by reflecting on the concept of technological advancement and the aspects in which it

The human race's existence has relied from the outset on its capacity to deal with the natural world. Primitive humans created remarkable technologies for acquiring the essentials of existence

For Skolimowski, technology and science are different in that science "examines the situation which is given" whereas technology "generates information as per a design" (374). The definition of both science and technology by

They often started to domesticate animals as individuals settled down to cultivate plants. They let the more submissive ones breed, creating tame animals that did not run or battle pursuing humans after hundreds of years. Just llamas and the guinea pig were domesticated in the New World by Andean cultures. Therefore, a comparative shortage of animal protein in the diet was encountered by people in the Americas (Early civilization, Slide 16). In the region known as the Fertile Crescent, the most ...

They often started to domesticate animals as individuals settled down to cultivate plants. They let the more submissive ones breed, creating tame animals that did not run or battle pursuing humans after hundreds of years. Just llamas and the guinea pig were domesticated in the New World by Andean cultures. Therefore, a comparative shortage of animal protein in the diet was encountered by people in the Americas (Early civilization, Slide 16). In the region known as the Fertile Crescent, the most ...

For Skolimowski, technology and science are different in that science "examines the situation which is given" whereas technology "generates information as per a design" (374). The definition of both science and technology by

Skolimowski explores the connection between technology to research. He believes that innovation is not research and that it is separate from practical science. According to Skolimowski, the distinction between science and technology is better understood by reflecting on the concept of technological advancement and the aspects in which it

The human race's existence has relied from the outset on its capacity to deal with the natural world. Primitive humans created remarkable technologies for acquiring the essentials of existence

a) The process of decline. The scientific decline is claimed to have been in the Hellenistic period around 180 BC; some suggest that it was only after about 250 CE in the Greco-Roman era. Of course, not all research and ordinary metaphysical practice fell to a stop since the 2nd century B.C. However, senior research seems to have gone steam less in the late ancient ages. In general, activity was fewer overall, and the degree of experimental originality decreased over time. Intellectual work was...