Technological Presence: Actuality and Potentiality in Subject Constitution

Technological Presence: Actuality and Potentiality in Subject Constitution

Technical mediation shapes our experience of the world, but it also shapes our experience of ourselves. In this paper, I argue that in order to understand the latter aspect of technical mediation, we need to expand on notions of technical mediation that focuses on actual use, and bring in possible use as well. The concept of technical mediation must therefore be grounded in a more general conce...

Actuality, Potentiality and De Anima II.5

Myles Burnyeat has argued that in De Anima II.5 Aristotle marks out a refined kind of alteration which is to be distinguished from ordinary alteration, change of quality as defined in Physics III.1-3. Aristotle’s aim, he says, is to make it clear that perception is an alteration of this refined sort and not an ordinary alteration. Thus, it both supports his own interpretation of Aristotle’s vie...

Bridging Necessity and Contingency in Quantum Mechanics: Potentiality, Actuality, and the Scientific Rehabilitation of Process Ontology

Actuality and possibility: On the complementarity of two registers in the bodily constitution of experience

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of possibility, and not merely that of actuality, for an inquiry into the bodily constitution of experience. The paper will study how the possibilities of action that may (or may not) be available to the subject help to shape the meaning attributed to perceived objects and to the situation occupied by the subject within h...

Organizational Path Constitution in Technological Innovation: Evidence from Rural Telehealth

Path constitution theory has emerged as a promising combination of two contrasting perspectives on technological innovation: path dependence, which focuses on historically embedded, contingent processes that are more or less beyond the control of actors, and path creation, which emphasizes mindful contributions from powerful actors. However, the current path constitution literature focuses on m...