Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We start from this beautiful enigmatic quote from the Dutch catholic philosophers of technology Frans Tellegen, who summarizes the history of philosophy of technology as follows. Do you recognize all the names that he assumes as self-evident? 120
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🚨New article with Darryl Cressman in Techné: “The Philosophy of Technology is more than Technology: Towards a Framework for the History of the Philosophy of Technology” The starting point is simple question: what does it mean to write history of philosophy of technology? #philtech #hopot #hopos 12512
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/09/20263/ For this paper, I look at two figures in particular: Hugo Dingler and Gaston Bachelard. They both put experimentation at the center of their thinking, but they do so as part of two radically different philosophical projects. 1110
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/09/20261/ 🧵 The history of the philosophy of experimentation isn't really just a history of what philosophers have said about experiments. In a new #HOPOS paper, I argue that it is also a history of what philosophers thought philosophy of science itself was *for*. #philsci 24221
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Today in Delft to talk about the history of philosophy of technology in the Netherlands #hopot #philtech 0100
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Continuing my journey through empiricisms, now with the great book by David Lapoujade on William James' radical empiricism. This is the book that 'converted' Latour to James and pragmatism #philsci 091
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Just finished this, another great recent introduction to logical empiricism, The Vienna Circle by Sahotra Sarkar. Very accessible, but also goes into the technical bits regularly #jesuispositivist #philsci 2253
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Who was Ferdinand Gonseth? If you want Ties van Gemert and me talk about this half-forgotten Swiss philosopher of science and what role he played in 20C #philsci, you can join online! This Wednesday! sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/s... 053
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I will be at this great conference in Brussels on Arendt and philosophy of technology for the next few days #philtech ethu.research.vub.be/conference-c... 080
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Fons Dewulf in action at #epsa25, arguing for the use of constitutive a priori for thinking about historiography #epsa2025 @epsaphilsci.bsky.social 0130
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 28/08/2025In the session right now, she is doing great #epsa25 140
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 09/08/2025It looks like the perfect day to read this ☀️ 040
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 28/06/2025There actually was a picture of me after all! #spt2025 081
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Up next is keynote at #spt2025 by Robert Rosenberger on Sartre's letter opener and the hard problem in the philosophy of technology 051
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Continuing #spt2025 with session on maintenance and #philtech, starting with Mark Thomas Young on Artifact metabolisms: the material flows of an iphone 030
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Another Simondon talk at #spt2025! Luuk Stellinga uses Simondon to criticize the instrumentalism of humane AI 0112
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 27/06/2025#spt2025 continues, now panel on instrumentalism, starting with Johannes Schick on 'technology' as a category (with Durkheim, Mauss, and Hubert) #philtech 050
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Final #spt2025 session of the day, starting with @ethicistforhire.bsky.social on #philtech and movies! 082
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Next keynote at #spt2025 is @shannonvallor.bsky.social on 'de-coding humanity' #philtech 0152
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Final talk of the #spt2025 is on the usefulness of the concept of technoscience - and Gilbert Hottois of course appears! 010
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The panel continues with the Delft empirical philosophy cluster on their empirical study of empirical philosophy #spt2025 #philtech 140
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Next at #spt2025, mixed panel in #philtech: Tijs Vandemeulebroucke on how philosophy of technology is always grounded in extractivism 151
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Session of #SPT2025 on Nelson Goodman, ways of worldmaking, and #philtech - opening by Alfred Nordmann 050
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Currently in a session of #SPT2025 on intercultural #philtech: what is it? What does it do? What needs to be done? @esdit.bsky.social 071
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Opening keynote by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social at the #spt2025 conference on 'intimiteit technologies' #philtech 1101
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This week there is a great conference on Bruno Latour as a philosopher in Paris! I will give a talk on anthropology of science, critique and the Latour-Serres connection. See the full program here lier-fyt.ehess.fr/evenement/le... #philsci 091
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 16/04/2025March through Maastricht against budget cuts #WOinActie @woinactielimburg.bsky.social 061
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 16/04/2025About to march through Maastricht against budget cuts #WOinActie @woinactielimburg.bsky.social 050
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Huge crowd, protesting against the budget cuts in Dutch higher education at Maastricht #WOinActie 0146
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I believe I do have similar manuscripts lying around in my desk - any journal would be interested? 070
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Apparently it is national science fiction day in the US. Here some covers of recent #scifi books I read that I enjoyed! 120
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Currently reading Rowbottom on cognitive instrumentalism. (The ratio of thought experiment per page is embarrassing ) #philsci 3153
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Today I finished @naomiaklein.bsky.social her Doppelganger, which is a great read, very well executed. Though theorywise on the conspiracy theory theory a bit shaky in my opinion 141
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Continuing our topic of time and speed, today started reading Hartmut Rosa's Social Acceleration 060
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024More than 20,000 people protesting the budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands #WOinActie 05316
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Today, we're protesting the proposed budget cuts for higher education in the Netherlands #WOinActie 1100
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Continuing my exploration of the work of Paul Virilio 070
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 01/11/2024Now the #HOPOT2024 conference is over, I take a bit of rest and will lose myself in this new biography of Michel Serres (only 700 pages!) 010
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Kicking off the last day of the #HOPOT2024 conference, with Carl Mitcham on the history of the field of philosophy of technology #philtech 060
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 29/10/2024We start second day with second keynote of Federica Buongiorno on technology and repression #hopot2024 #histtech 000
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 28/10/2024Full house at our first keynote by Xavier Guchet for our history of philosophy of technology conference @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social #HOPOT2024 #philtech 081
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 28/10/2024We opened the history of philosophy of technology conference at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social #HOPOT2024 050
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 13/06/2024Great lineup for this years historical epistemology workshop! Sadly I cannot be there this year #philsci #histsci 092
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 09/04/2024Wat heeft AI met papegaaien te maken? Als onderdeel van de lezingenreeks voor de permanente vorming actuele filosofie aan de UGent, geef ik een lezing over hoe de levenswetenschappen ons anders kunnen doen denken over AI. www.ugent.be/lw/philosoph... 020