Abstract
In April 2006, I was invited to present a discussion paper at a conference of the Centre
for Philosophy, Technology and Social Systems (CPTS). The Centre is one of the few
initiatives where reformational philosophers and engineers meet to discuss issues of
Science, Technology and Society. The main actors in this network are Sytse Strijbos
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Andrew Basden (University of
Salford, United Kingdom). Recently, the results of this longstanding cooperation between
the members of this Centre were presented in a solid work entitled In Search of
an Integrative Vision for Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems (2006)
(S. Strijbos and A. Basden (eds), Springer, New York). In this book an integrative
vision has been developed from a Dooyeweerdian perspective. Therefore, it is worthwhile
to introduce this group and its main lines of thought. In this critical study I
introduce the CPTS (section 1), highlight some main ideas of this study (section 2),
discuss the use of the Dooyeweerdian ontology (section 3), enrich the idea of human
practices (section 4), explore directional perspectives in relation to society and
organisations (section 5), and draw some conclusions (section 6).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 69-77 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Philosophia Reformata |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |