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Digital twins as Technology of Transformation : A Transcendental Empiricist Perspective

Ven, J. van de (2025) Digital twins as Technology of Transformation : A Transcendental Empiricist Perspective.

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Abstract:This thesis develops a conceptual framework for digital twins that enables them to be deployed as a technology of transformation and explores how digital twin practices need to be modified to achieve such an instrumentalisation. Digital twins, or digital twinning, refers to the digitally representing of physical entities, processes and systems. Current use cases of digital twins promise to increase the ability to control and optimise operations. As responds to this use case, In response to this use case, the literature in philosophy of technology and science and technology studies (STS) has conceptualised digital twins as an instrument of power and control; as a technology of control. Simultaneously, there appears to be a need for instrumentalisation of digital twins as a technology of transformation for tackling societal problems. These problems require a transformation of the logic on which societal systems are currently based. The problem with realising this use case is that there is no conceptual framework for using digital twins in this way. Furthermore, there is no empirical case from which such a conceptual framework could be derived. To overcome this difficulty, the thesis makes use of Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism and develops a conceptual framework for digital twins as technology of transformation.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:08 philosophy
Programme:Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society MSc (60024)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/105390
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