Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 2011
Baohua Xia
Pages 16-22
Reconstructing the Disciplinary Consensus of the Philosophy of Technology
Henry Dircks and The Philosophy of Invention
The author of The Philosophy of Invention, Henry Dircks (1806–1873), was an English civil engineer, inventor and historian of technology. The Philosophy of Invention is a forgotten classic of the philosophy of technology, and its author a forgotten pioneer. This new discovery will correct the disciplinary consensus in the philosophy of technology.