№1 (28), 2014. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN MACHINE-BUILDING INDUSTRY

M.G. Kosov

Modern philosophical approaches to understanding the concept of «technical»

This article describes the content of the concept of «technical» how all that relates to artifacts on artificial material system  created  to  target  specific  technologies.  The  author  raises  a  number  of  controversial  issues  in  the  philosophy  of technology, due to the appearance, in particular, NBIKS technologies allowing to substantially amend corporality man, introducing artificial organs in a living organism. In this regard, the paper proposes to extend the concept of technical, pointing  to  the  inclusion  here  of  artificial  objects  on  the  basis  of  the  biological  substrate. 

 

Keywords: technique, technology, technical, artifacts, nature, philosophy of technology, activity approach, transhumanism..

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