Two philosophical approaches to the problem of technics and their meaning for Latin America
pp. 271-281
in: Carl Mitcham (ed), Philosophy of technology in Spanish speaking countries, Berlin, Springer, 1993Abstract
The first difficulty one encounters when thinking about technics concerns whether it is singular or plural. Technics manifests itself today in the guise of many technics, as an irreducible plural reality, which argues against any hypostatizing of the phenomenon by talking about it with a reductionist singularity. Technics are not always some one technique. There are always many technics in the form of radically diverse manifestations that are impossible to unify in some global definition that takes account of this complexity.