Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy / quote 5 of 5
Philosophy engines and epistemic practice
The examples of computational technologies which could be viewed as potential 'philosophy engines' that I have given are meant to show how the mundane processes for accessing, organising, arranging and analysing electronic processes, even if not directly taken up for doing philosophy, could affect the epistemic practices of philosophy. The increase in the number of interpretational tasks relegated to computational resources combining Internet, analysis and interpretation tools and technologies will be powerful influences on the epistemic practices of intellectual endeavour generally, and are the epistemology and philosophy engines of the future.