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    An 'Aristotelian' Philosophy of the Internet
    WebSci '21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021June 2021 (ACM Digital Library). 2021.
    The paper argues for the necessity of building up a philosophy of the internet and proposes a version of it, an ‘Aristotelian’ philosophy of the internet. First, a short overview of some recent trends in the internet research is presented. This train of thoughts leads to a proposal of understanding the nature of the internet in the spirit of the Aristotelian philosophy i.e., to conceive “the internet as the internet”, as a totality of its all aspects, as a whole entity. For this purpose, the int…Read more
  •  286
    The medical use of computing and information and communication technologies (ICTs) has a history of several decades, but the emergence of the internet, and especially the web and social media, created a new situation. As a result, currently the term eHealth is widely used – and the usage of the internet (and mobile) “technologies” in healthcare (among the patients and professionals, too) tends to be usual practice. There are more and more signs of the institutionalization of this new sub-discipl…Read more
  •  273
    Lakatos and Lukács
    In G. Kampis, L.: Kvasz & M. Stöltzner (eds.), Appraising Lakatos: Mathematics, Methodology and the Man, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 303--337. 2002.
    Lakatos constructed his major contribution to the philosophy of science, the methodology of scientific research programmes (MSRP), in the late sixties and early seventies in England, after he had already become estranged from the Popperian philosophy of science. In this paper, we attempt to show that the MSRP was motivated by his philosophical and political ideas from the forties and fifties in Hungary, when he was imbued with the communist ideology and was influenced by the philosophy of Georg …Read more
  •  222
    Technology as an Aspect of Human Praxis
    In Mihaly Heder & Eszter Nadasi (eds.), Essays in Post-Critical Philosophy of Technology, Vernon Press. pp. 19-31. 2019.
    This paper proposes a specific approach to understanding the nature of technology that encompasses the entire field of technological praxis, from the making of primitive tools to using the Internet. In that approach, technology is a specific form of human agency that yields to (an imperfect) realization of human control over a technological situation—that is, a situation not governed to an end by natural constraints but by specific human aims. The components of such technological situations are …Read more
  •  207
    Toward a Philosophy of the Internet
    APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 17 (2): 40-49. 2018.
    The paper argues for the necessity of building up a philosophy of the Internet and proposes a version of it, an «Aristotelian» philosophy of the Internet. First, an overview of the recent trends in the Internet research is presented. This train of thoughts leads to a proposal of understanding the nature of the Internet in the spirit of the Aristotelian philosophy i. e., to conceive the Internet as the Internet, as a totality of its all aspects, as a whole entity. For this purpose, the Internet i…Read more
  •  130
    Based on recent trends in philosophy of science, in philosophy of technology, and in technosience studies it can be concluded that the following formula expresses a significant relationship of the relevant disciplines: science is equal to technology plus philosophy. In order to disclose the meaning of this relationship first of all we have to characterize a kind of philosophy of technology. In this view, the human rule over technological situations and the creation/use of tools play a fundamenta…Read more
  •  122
    Sustainability versus Web Life Construction
    Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio 9 15-34. 2022.
    The interpretations of sustainability are varied. In most cases, the focus is on reinterpretations and transformations of human attitudes towards the natural environment and certain (unacceptable) social practices and conditions, i.e. the task would be to shape these spheres of human existence in the interests of sustainability. However, the creation and widespread use of the Internet is fundamentally changing human life that is no longer confined to the natural and social spheres. Web life, as …Read more
  •  116
    Error as the Natural End for any Technologies
    In Rozália Klára Bakó & Gizela Horvath (eds.), ARGUMENTOR 7. Error. Proceedings of the Seventh Argumentor Conference held in Oradea/Nagyvárad, Romania, 16–17 September 2022, Partium Press and Debrecen University Press. pp. 27-35. 2022.
    Technology is a specific form of human agency that yields to (an imperfect) realization of human control over a technological situation-that is, a situation not governed to an end by natural constraints but by specific human aims. In this view, technology can be considered the only way of producing artificial beings. However, all technology is finite by nature, which means that sooner or later, all technology will fail, break down, and go wrong. The fate of all technologies and artificial beings…Read more
  •  98
    Prolegomena to a Web-Life-Theory
    Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio 1 (1): 9-19. 2014.
    Human existence is being transformed. Its structure, many thousand years old, seems to be changing: built on the natural and the social, there is a third form of existence: web-life. Man is now the citizen of three worlds and its nature is being formed by the relations of natural, social and web-life. We regard as our main goal the study of web-life, which has developed as the result of Internet use
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    Virtuality and Reality—Toward a Representation Ontology
    Philosophies 1 (1): 40--54. 2015.
    Based on a brief overview of the history of ontology and on some philosophical problems of virtual reality, a new approach to virtuality is proposed. To characterize the representational technologies in the Internet age, I suggest that Aristotle’s dualistic ontological system be complemented with a third form of being: virtuality. In the virtual form of being actuality and potentiality are inseparably intertwined. Virtuality is potentiality considered together with its actualization. In this vie…Read more
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    Analogies: Aristotelian and modern physics
    with Katalin Martinás
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2 (1): 1-9. 1987.
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    Zenonian Arguments in Quantum Mechanics
    with Péter Szegedi
    In D. Greenberger, W. L. Reiter & A. Zeilinger (eds.), Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics, Springer. pp. 253-256. 1999.
    Zeno’s Dichotomy aporia says: “Motion is impossible, because an object in motion must reach the half-way point before it gets to the end ”. In the recent philosophical literature there are several kinds of interpretations: negative and positive dialectics, atomism, radical empiricism, finitism, infinitism, indefinitism, etc. The scientific reflections on the paradoxes time to time produce different types of “resolutions” of these problems.[1] Most of these treatments use some kind of measure con…Read more
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    Steps in the Hermeneutic Critique of Scientism by Dimitri Ginev (review)
    Balkan Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 101-103. 2010.