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There are many methodological approaches employed by scholars working within the general area of the philosophy of technology. This methodological richness is rightly the cause of a certain degree of pride felt by many members of The Society for Philosophy and Technology. For we clearly work hard at encouraging and maintaining a form of methodological pluralism that has evaded the mainstream American philosophical community. Philosophical provincialism also seems to threaten productive interchange between divergent points of view on the Continent as well, witness the almost total breakdown of communication between the so-called postmodernists and analytical philosophers
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Pitt, J.C. (2011). Philosophical Methodology, Technologies, and the Transformation of Knowledge. In: Doing Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0820-4_6
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