WGPTalks is a series of short podcasts with members of the Working Group on Philosophy of Technology (WGPT), to explore their work and current research.

This ninth episode is with Massimiliano Simons, one of the founding members of WGPT, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, and who will start a position as Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology at Maastricht University in the Summer. . He is interested in contemporary technosciences, ranging from synthetic biology to robotics, and will talk in this episode about the advantages and disadvantages of the concept of technoscience to capture what is going on in these new fields.

Interview done by Hannes Van Engeland.

Content
00:40 Start Interview
01:11 What is technoscience?
02:34 The concept of 'technoscience'
05:35 The history of the concept
09:10 Technoscience as a societal diagnosis
11:17 Technoscience as a prescriptive term
14:00 Modernity as technoscientific
14:56 Technoscience as the essence of science
20:22 Criticisms of the concept
26:00 Technoscience and philosophy of science
29:09 Technoscience and the history of science
31:00 What are the aims of technoscience?
32:39 Towards and ecology of technoscience
34:16 The future of technoscience
31:52 Multiple relations virtue ethics and technology
35:37 Thanks and goodbye