Culture and Technology in Spain: From Philosophical Analysis to STS

Abstract

Spain is becoming the source of a number of scholarly engagements between culture and technology that run the gamut from analytic philosophy to postmodernist activism. These appear in publications that rival those of almost any other country and reflect the great diversity of modern Spain. Unfortunately, these engagements are often underappreciated by English-speaking readers. The present essay uses both geography and methodology to describe this emerging body of work, while acknowledging the simplifications and overlaps inherent in any survey.

A Response to “The STS Challenge to Philosophy of Science in Taiwan”

“…So what do philosophers see as specific to biotechnology, computing, agriculture, or engineering, and what do they see as more generally applicable to technology? What schools of philosophy of technology, or of technoscience, have arisen in Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, or Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, and why (Durbin 2006;Mitcham and Bengoetxea 2006)? The attention of philosophers of technology to these particularities, institutional and regional, seems to offer particularly fertile ground for dialogue with STS scholars in Taiwan, whether they be philosophers or researchers in any other discipline.…”