What next after determinism in the ontology of technology? Distributing responsibility in the biofuel debate.

摘要: This article builds upon previous discussion of social and technical determinisms as implicit positions in the biofuel debate. To ensure these debates are balanced, it has been suggested that they should be designed to contain a variety deterministic positions. Whilst is agreed determinism does not feature strongly contemporary academic literatures, found have generally superseded by an absence any substantive conceptualisation how shaping technology may related to, or occur alongside, objective autonomous reality. The problem emerges at ontological level must resolved situ. A critical realist approach presented which provide more appropriate framework for In dialogue with discussion, distribution responsibility revisited reference role scientists engineers.