Maarten Franssen is
associate professor at the Section of Philosophy at Delft University of
Technology. His research interests include the relation between philosophy of
technology and philosophy of science, the nature of normativity in relation to
artefacts and their use, the metaphysics of artefacts, the analysis of
technology as concerned with instrumental and sociotechnical systems, and the
analysis of design as decision-making and its problems.
Pieter Vermaas is
associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at Delft University of
Technology. His research in the philosophy of technology includes analyses of
the concepts of technical function and of technical artefacts, and more
recently the study of the structure, aims, and validation of design methods and
design thinking. He co-edits the journal Design Science, and edits two book
series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, and Design Research
Foundations. www.pietervermaas.nl
Peter Kroes is full
professor at the Department of Philosophy of Technology at Delft University of
Technology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology are
the dual nature of technical artefacts and the philosophy of engineering
design. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn in the
philosophy of technology. http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethicsphilosophy-of-technology/staff/profdrir-pa-peter-kroes/
Anthonie Meijers is full
professor at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics of Eindhoven University of
Technology. His main interests in the field of the philosophy of technology are
the theory of artefacts, agency and artefacts, and the epistemology of
technology. He is one of the co-editors of the book on the empirical turn in
the philosophy of technology and the editor in chief of the Handbook Philosophy
of Technology and Engineering Sciences (2009).