These are the key philosophers (and authors) behind my current thinking. I might even update this page from time to time!
Aristotle
Edmund Husserl
He of phenomenology, the art and philosophy of understanding what we experience as we live. For me, it’s about mediation of experience through technology, about what we “see” and feel as we observe things through microscopes or via computer screens. Closely linked to the philosophy personified by…
Hans-Georg Gadamer
… whose philosophical highlight for me was the study of hermeneutics, or interpretation. That’s what engineers do all day: we interpret data, images, specifications, emails: and we write or create such data so that others can interpret them, hopefully even as intended!
Gilbert Simondon
The kickstarter for me, an anthropologist-philosopher who wanted to understand the nature of being of technical objects.
