Beyond design: cybernetics, biological computers and hylozoism.
The history of British cybernetics offers us a different form of science and engineering, one that does not seek to dominate nature through knowledge. I want to say that one can distinguish two different paradigms in the history of science and technology: the one that Heidegger despised, which we co...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 168; no. 3; pp. 469 - 492 |
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Jun2009
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