Journal Articles
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (2023)
From Epistemology to Policy: Reorienting Philosophy Courses for Science Students
The European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2022)
Artifacts as Rules: Wittgenstein and the Sociology of Technology
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (2018)
Heuristics and Human Judgment: What we can Learn About Scientific Discovery from the Study of Engineering Design
Topoi: International Review of Philosophy (2018)
Nature as Spectacle: Experience and Empiricism in Early Modern Experimental Practice
Centaurus (2018)
Enchanting Automata: Wilkins and the Wonder of Workmanship
Intellectual History Review (2017)
Manual Labour and 'Mean Mechanicks': Bacon's Mechanical History and the Deprecation of Craft Skills in Early Modern Science
Perspectives on Science (2017)
Technology and Technique: The Role of Skill in the Practice of Scientific Observation
Perspectives on Science (2016)
Relevance and Relationalism
Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics (2011)
Forthcoming
“Performing Science in Early Modern England: Experimental Entertainment and its Audiences”
in Adele Senior and Simon Parry (eds) The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science
(Routledge, 2025)
Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Wessel Reijers, Mark Thomas Young & Mark Coeckelbergh
(Palgrave Macmillan 2025)
Work in Progress
“The Toil of Early Vacuum Cleaners: Automation and the Phenomenology of Invisible Labor” invited contribution for Galit Wellner & Robert Rosenberger (eds) Postphenomenology and Feminism (Lexington Press)
"The Development of the GM Counter: Cosmic Rays and Contexts of Equipment 1928-1950" invited contribution for Alexndra Karakas & Adam Tuboly (eds) Scientific Mistakes, Mistaken Science (Springer)
Book Chapters
"Technology in Process: Maintenance and the Metaphysics of Artifacts"
Maintenance and the Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going (Routledge, 2024)
"Artifacts and Seasonality: How we Guide the Built Environment Through Time"
Changing Seasonality: How Communities are Revising Their Seasons (De Gruyter, 2024)
"Maintenance"
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering (Routledge, 2021)
"Early Royal Society"
Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Springer, 2020)
Now You See It (Now You Don't): Users, Maintainers and the Invisibility of Infrastructure
Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies (Springer, 2021)
Experimentalist as Spectator: The Phenomenology of Early Modern Experimentalism
The Past, Present and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2019)
Intuition and Ineffability: Tacit Knowledge and Engineering Design
The Future of Engineering: Philosophical Foundations, Ethical Problems and Application Cases (Springer, 2018)
Books
Edited Volumes
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going
Editors: Mark Thomas Young & Mark Coeckelbergh
What can we learn about the nature of technology by studying practices of maintenance and repair? This volume addresses this question by bringing together scholarship from philosophers of technology working at the forefront of this emerging and exciting topic.
The chapters in this volume explore how attending to maintenance and repair can challenge and complement existing ways of thinking about technology focused on use and design and introduce new philosophical perspectives on the relationship between technology, time and human practice. They examine the significance of maintenance and repair practices at different scales in relation to a diverse range of philosophical traditions and a wide variety of technologies, from urban infrastructure such as bridges and buildings to data technologies such as servers and software systems. Together, the contributions highlight common themes in the philosophical study of maintenance, including the role of skill, the significance of social values and the potential of these practices to transform the technologies to which they are applied. By reflecting on the different ways in which we keep technologies going, from the devices we use in our homes to the large technical systems which surround us, this volume reveals the philosophical significance of practices of maintenance, not only as a source of new insights but also as a resource for enriching our understanding of a variety of existing topics in philosophy.
Authored Books
Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Wessel Reijers, Mark Thomas Young & Mark Coeckelbergh
Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies offers a set of lecture and seminar course materials for teaching ethics of emerging technologies. It covers the field in a comprehensive and accessible manner, emphasizing storytelling and examples, practical approaches and tools, and interactive assignments. The book addresses historical and current discourses, both academic and practical, related to the ethics of emerging technologies. This includes a basic introduction to normative ethics and applied ethics of technology, an accessible entry point to theories of technology and normativity, particular technological themes (engineering ethics, ethics of AI, and ethics of biotechnologies), as well as societal contexts in which emerging technologies play a pivotal role (citizenship, sustainability, and global inequality).