{"657470":{"#nid":"657470","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rosenberger Publishes Book Chapter on Technological Multistability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobert Rosenberger, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, contributed a chapter to the new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.oxfordhandbooks.com\/view\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190851187.001.0001\/oxfordhb-9780190851187\u0022\u003Ebook\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cem\u003EThe Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E. Rosenberger\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190851187.013.42\u0022\u003Echapter\u003C\/a\u003E is titled \u0026ldquo;Technological Multistability and the Trouble with the Things Themselves.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn it, he argues that technological multistability \u0026mdash; or \u0026ldquo;the idea that technologies always support multiple meanings and uses\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; is a valid jumping-off point for the analysis of how we encounter the world and the things in it. He uses Jean-Paul Sartre\u0026rsquo;s example of the letter opener as a way of exploring this idea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Where the letter opener\u0026rsquo;s form is the result of the plans of designers and manufacturers, Sartre claims that we human beings instead have no such luck,\u0026rdquo; Rosenberger writes. \u0026ldquo;Unlike the letter opener, human beings find themselves here in existence without a pre-designed purpose or context of meaning set out ahead of time by some designer. If an artifact\u0026rsquo;s essence precedes its existence, then the opposite is true for us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full chapter at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190851187.013.42\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190851187.013.42\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe chapter appears in the book \u0026quot;The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The chapter appears in the book \u0022The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology.\u0022"}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-04-20 20:12:41","changed_gmt":"2022-04-20 20:13:29","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405881":{"id":"405881","type":"image","title":"Robert Rosenberger","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1539181769","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:29:29","alt":"Photo portrait of School of Public Policy professor Robert Rosenberger","file":{"fid":"76113","name":"robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40625,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg?itok=DSNltKPQ"}}},"media_ids":["405881"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2759","name":"philosophy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}