Egbert Schuurman: a Christian philosopher of technology

Professor Egbert Schuurman (1937 - ) is a professor of Reformational philosophy at the Universities of Delft and Eindhoven and at the Agricultural University of Waneningen in the Netherlands. He is also a member of the Senate of the Dutch parliament. He studied under Dooyeweerd and Van Riessen at the Free University in Amsterdam.


He is the author of :

• Technology and the Future: A Philosophical Challenge (Wedge, 1980)
• Perspectives on Technique and Culture
  
• Faith and Hope in Technology (Clements, 2003)
• The Technological World picture and an Ethics of responsibility: Strugles in the Ethics of Technology (Dordt, 2005)

He also contributed to the Calvin Center for Scholarship book Responsible Technology edited by Steven V. Monsma - sadly now out of print.

An audio tape of Egbert speaking on the ethics of technology is available from WYSOCS.

On-line articles include:

• Beyond the empirical turn
• The ethics of technology
• Philosophical and technological problems of technicism and genetic engineering

There is a Wiki article on him here.

Update
Another on-line article is available here [HT Macht]
Update 2
Another on the ethics of responsibility is here

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