Philosophy of Technology

Featured publications:

Blok, V (2026) “The Redesign of the World in the Digital Age: Towards a Design Philosophy that Studies the Design of Artefacts and the World in which they are embedded”. Secomandi, F., Verbeek, P.P. (Eds.) Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn, Bloomsbury: pp 61-79 (DOI:10.5040/9781350494480.ch-4).
Bosschaert, M., Blok, V. (2026), “Toward an integrated framework in the philosophy of technology: integrating philosophical reflection on technology in general and concrete technologies”, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology (DOI: 10.5840/techne2025930216)
Veraart, R., Blok, V. (2025) “Digitalisation of Agri-Food Systems: A Paradigm Shift?” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 38(20)(2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-025-09954-4
Blok, V. (2026) “Economics and Politics in the age of AI: Towards a Political Concept of Technological Innovations”. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 30:1 (published online:(https://doi.org/10.5840/TECHNE202565211).
Rijssenbeek, J., Robaey, Z., Blok, V. (2025) “Disruptive Technologies and Intra-Value Conflicts: The Case of Naturalness and Sustainability in Cellular Agriculture”, Environmental Values (https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719251347453).
Rijssenbeek, J., Blok, V. (2025) “New Encounters Between Life and Technology: Simondon and the Case of Synthetic Biology”, Foundations of Science (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-09980-5)
Blok, V. (2025) “Technology, as a Theme in Phenomenology”. In: de Warren, N., Toadvine, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Springer: Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47253-5_296-1
Blok, V. (2024) “Ecological Hermeneutic Phenomenology as Method to Research the Ontic and Ontological Structure of Technologies in the World”. In: B. de Boer & J. Zwier (Eds.) Phenomenology and philosophy of technology. Openbook Publishers: 27-51
Blok, V. (2024) “Materiality versus Metabolism in the Hybrid World: towards a Dualist Concept of Materialism as Limit of Post-humanism in the Technical Era”. Philosophy and Technology 37(60): doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00751-x
Blok, V. (2023) Philosophy of technology in the digital age: the datafication of the world, the homo virtualis, and the capacity of technological innovations to set the World free. Wageningen: Wageningen University
Veraart, R., Blok, V., Lemmens, P. (2023) “Ecomodernism and the Libidinal Economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio-Based Economy”. Philosophy _ Technology, 36(18)DOI 10.1007/s13347-023-00617-8
Blok, V. (2023) “Technology as mimesis of nature: Biomimicry as Regenerative Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Technology”. Techne: Research in Philosophy of Technology (Published online)
Blok, V. (2022) “The role of human creativity in human-technology relations”, Philosophy and Technology (Published online).
Rijssenbeek, J., Blok, V., Robaey, Z. (2022) “Metabolism instead of Machine: Towards an ontology of hybrids”, Philosophy & Technology (published online)
Blok, V. (2022) “The ontology of creation: towards a philosophical account of the creation of World in innovation processes”, Foundations of Science (forthcoming).
Bosschaert, M., Blok, V. (2022) “The ‘empirical’ in the empirical turn: a critical analysis”. Foundations of science (published online)
Blok, V. (2022) “The ontology of technology beyond anthropocentrism and determinism. The role of technologies in the constitution of the (post)Anthropocene World”. Foundations of Science (published online).
Korenhof, P., Blok, V., Kloppenburg, S. (2022) “Steering representations: toward a critical understanding of Digital Twins”. Philosophy and Technology (published online)
Blok, V. (2021) “What is innovation? Laying the Ground for a Philosophy of Innovation”. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 25(1): 72-96
Blok, V. (2021) “The Ontology of Innovation: On the New, the Political-Economic Dimension and the Intrinsic Risks involved in Innovation Processes” in: Michelfelder, D., Doorn, N. (ed). Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. London: Routledge: 273-285
Holy-Luczaj, M., Blok, V. (2021) “Hybrids and the Boundaries of Moral Considerability or Revisiting the idea of non-instrumental value”, Philosophy and Technology, 34: 223-242
Holy-Luczaj, M., Blok, V. (2019) “How to deal with Hybrids in the Anthropocene: Towards a Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Philosophy 2.0”, Environmental Values 28(3): 325-345
Zwier, J., Blok, V., Lemmens, P. (2019), “Appraising Asymmetries – Considerations on the Changing Relation between Human Existence and Planetary Nature – Guest Editor’s Introduction”. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31(6): 635-644
Zwier, J., Blok, V. (2019), “Seeing through the fumes. Technology and asymmetry in the Anthropocene”, Human Studies 42(4): 621-646
Blok, V. (2017), Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene. New York: Routledge
Blok, V. (2017), “Earthing Technology: Towards an Eco-centric Concept of Biomimetic Technologies in the Anthropocene”, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology. 21(2-3): 127-149 (DOI: 10.5840/techne201752363).
Lemmens, P., Blok, V., Zwier, J. (2017). “Toward a Terrestrial Turn in Philosophy of Technology: Guest Editor’s Introduction”. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21(2-3): 114—126.
Zwier, J., Blok, V. (2017) “Saving Earth – Encountering Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology in the Anthropocene”. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology , 21(2-3): 222-242
Zwier, J., Blok, V., Lemmens, P. (2016) “Phenomenology and the empirical turn: a phenomenological analysis of postphenomenology”. Philosophy & Technology 29(4) 313-333 (doi:10.1007/s13347-016-0221-7): 313-333
Blok, V. (2014) “Reconnecting with Nature in the Age of Technology. The Heidegger and Radical Environmentalism Debate Revisited”, Environmental Philosophy 11(2), 307-332 (DOI: 10.5840/envirophil20149913).

Featured Interviews:

Interview in Filosofie Magazine about my progressive philosophy of technologies (in Dutch). to access the interview, click here.
Interview with Kennislink about technologies which embrace nature (in Dutch), Kennislink 13-5-22. to access the interview, click here.
Interview with NRC about philosophy of AI (in Dutch), NRC 25-2-23. to access the interview, click here.