Kroes, Prof. dr .ir. P.A. (Peter)

 

Contact Information

Prof.dr.ir. P.A. Kroes
Professor of Philosophy,
in particular the Philosophy of technology
Faculty Technology, Policy and Management
Delft, University of Technology

Jaffalaan 5
Room b4.190

P.O. Box 5015
2600 GA  Delft
The Netherlands

p.a.kroes@tudelft.nl

 

 

 

Personal Information:

Peter Kroes (1950) studied physical engineering at the University of Technology Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and wrote a Ph.D.-thesis on philosophical problems concerning the notion of time in modern physical theories  (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1982).

Since 1995 he is professor in philosophy, more in particular philosophy of technology, at the University of Technology Delft. His main areas of interest are philosophy of technology and philosophy of science.

Important publications: Time: its structure and role in physical theories (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), Filosofie van de natuurkunde (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), Technological development and science in the industrial age (Dordrecht: Kluwer Acad. Publishers, 1992), and Ideaalbeelden van wetenschap; een inleiding tot de wetenschapsfilosofie (Amsterdam: Boom, 1996)

Teaching Courses in:

  • Philosophy of science
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Ethics and engineering
  • Critical thinking

 

Research interests

  • The dual nature of technical artefacts
  • Modeling socio-technical systems
  • Practical reasoning

Secondary employment:
No secondary activities


Publications:

  • Books  Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical TheoriesSynthese Library, Vol. 179, Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht 1985.Filosofie van de NatuurkundeMartinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 1987.Ideaalbeelden van wetenschap; een inleiding tot de wetenschapsfilosofie, Boom, Meppel, 1996, (second, revised edition 2002).(download book) Kernthema’s in de technische wetenschap (2009), (co-auteurs: Pieter Vermaas, Ibo van de Poel, Maarten Franssen en Wybo Houkes), Boom. Edited Volumes  Technological development and science in the industrial ageKluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, 1992, co-editor: M. Bakker.The empirical turn in the philosophy of technologyResearch in Philosophy and Technology (series editor C. Mitcham), Vol. 20, co-editor: A. Meijers, JAI (Elsevier Science), Amsterdam, 2000.Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture,Springer, Dordrecht, 2008, co-editors: Pieter E. Vermaas, Andrew Light, and Steven A. Moore.Functions in biological and artificial worlds; comparative philosophical perspectives, Ulrich Krohs en Peter Kroes (eds.), MIT Press, 2009. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262113212 Recent articles/book contributions  
    • ‘Coherence of structural and functional descriptions of technical artifacts’, Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 37, Issue 1, The dual nature of technical artefacts, March 2006, Pages 137-151.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2005.12.015
    • ‘Modelling infrastructures as socio-technical systems’, (with Ottens, M., Franssen, M., and Van de Poel, I.),  Int. J. Critical Infrastructures, Vol. 2, Nos. 2/3, 2006, pp.133–145.
    • ‘Treating socio-technical systems as engineering systems: some conceptual problems’, (with Franssen, MPM, Poel, IR van de and Ottens, MM),  Systems research and behavioral science, 23(6), 2006, 803-814.
    • ‘A domain-independent descriptive design model and its application to structured reflection on design processes’ (with I.M.M.J. Reymen, D.K. Hammer, J.E. van Aken, C.H. Dorst, M.F.T. Bax and T. Basten, Research in Engineering Design (2006) 16: 147-173
    •  ‘Technology and normativity’, (with Poel, IR van de), Techne, 10(1), 2007, 1-6. ‘A semantics for means-end relations’, (with Hughes, JL, and Zwart, SD), Synthese, 158(2), 2007, 207-231.
    • Priemus, Hugo and Kroes, Peter (2008) 'Technical Artefacts as Physical and Social Constructions: The Case of Cité de la Muette', Housing Studies, 23:5, 717 — 736, To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/02673030802253822, URL: dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673030802253822
    • Peter Kroes & Pieter Vermaas, ‘Interesting differences between artifacts and natural objects’,   APA Newsletter Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 08, no. 1, 2008, pp. 28-31.

 

 

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