On the Concepts of ‘Technology’ and ‘Technological Sciences’

Abstract

The fact that the explanation and solution of philosophical problems is closely connected with science, is nowadays no longer a source of doubt for anybody. As a counterweight to the original, purely humanistic orientation of philosophy, in recent times the method connected with the results of the most important natural sciences has become current. Philosophers devoted their attention mainly to theoretical physics (more precisely, to some parts of it: quantum theory and the theory of relativity) and further, to astronomy, general biology and physiology and, to a lesser degree, to some other natural sciences.

Originally published in Czech under the title ‘Slovo o filosofii techniky’, in Filosofický časopis 12 (1964), 281–293 and in Russian under the title ‘O ponjatijax ‘texnika’ i ‘texničeskie nauki’’ in Organon 3 (1966), 111–125.