Günter Ropohl
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Günter Ropohl was a German philosopher of technology. Biography Günter Ropohl studied mechanical engineering and philosophy at Stuttgart University, where he was a scholar of the philosopher Max Bense. After his PhD in 1970, he wrote his Habilitation thesis in Philosophy und Sociology at Karlsruhe University 1978 under the supervision of Hans Lenk. His work dealt with the systems theory of "Technik" , leading to the concept of general technology. In 1979, Ropohl became professor at the Universität Karlsruhe . Soon after, in 1981, he became professor for Allgemeine Technologie and philosophy of technology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany . In the 1980s, he visited his colleague and friend Carl Mitcham in the United States. From 1983 to 1991, i.e. during the period of the Cold War, he was course director and visiting lecturer at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik . In 1988, he was invited as visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY. Ropohl was an honorary member of the German Engineering Association , due to his interdisciplinary engagement for the philosophy of technology. He was co-editor of an anthology of the classics in the philosophy of technology in a Continental-European tradition. Ropohl published 15 monographs, edited another 15 books and published more than 180 articles. He died on 28 January 2017 at the age of 77.
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