THE IMPACT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEMENTARITY: ON PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

Whether or not the Philosophy of Technology has "come of age" as a unique philosophical discipline or is still in search of its identity depends on how it develops its potential for reconciling the split between those who emphasize the human/social significance of what is philosophically analyzed and those who stress the importance of the adequacy of the language involved in philosophical analysis. Critics of the Philosophy of Technology believe that it is an unclearly defined discipline because of the broad scope of its interdisciplinary methodological stance plus the unresolved differences between Anglo-analytic and Continental methodological and epistemological perspectives. What The Philosophy of Technology must clarify is how it contributes both to science and philosophy with its ability to address the issue of the dilemma of knowing or the dilemma of knowledge. This dilemma is traced back to Kant's infamous claim that the human conceptual faculty acts as an interpreting of phenomena - making data subject to conceptual bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]