Academic Publications

A. Books

Monographs:

Distracted: A Philosophy of Cars and Phones. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.

Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Edited volumes:

The Critical Ihde. SUNY Press, 2023.

Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology. Co-edited with Samantha J. Fried. Lexington Books, 2021.

Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations. Co-edited with Peter-Paul Verbeek. Lexington Books, 2015.

Philosophy of Science: 5 Questions. Automatic Press/VIP, 2010. -interviews with leading figures in the field

B. Articles and Book Chapters

Jesper Aagaard & Robert Rosenberger. “Experience Without Essentialism: On ‘Posting” Phenomenology.” Qualitative Research in Psychology. Forthcoming.

“The Communication of Values Through Hostile Design.” In S. L. Connaughton & Stefanie Pakallus (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication. New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 190-199.

“The Activist Potential of Postmodern Phenomenology of Technology.” In B. de Boer & J. Zwier (Eds.), Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology. Open Book Publishers, 2024, pp. 97-120.

“Hostile Design” Entry for Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies, May 23rd, 2024.

“A Classification Scheme for Hostile Design.” Philosophy of the City Journal. 1(1): 49-70, 2023.

“Technological Multistability and the Trouble with the Things Themselves.” In S. Vallor (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, pp. 374-391, 2022.

“Against Spectatorial Utopianism” AI & Society, 2021.

“The Politics of the Passive Subject.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. 10(9): 29-35, 2021. 

“A Primer on Postphenomenology and Image Reading.” In S. J. Fried & R. Rosenberger (eds.), Postphenomenology & Imaging. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 3-95, 2021. 93 pages!

“Sartre’s Keyhole and the Politics of Multistable Space.” In I. B. Hyams, & L. Botin (eds.), Postphenomenology & Architecture. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 73-104, 2021.

“Backing Up Into Advocacy: The Case of Smartphone Driver Distraction.” The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique. 1(1): article 3, 1-16, 2020.

“A Preliminary Inventory of the Transformations of Scientific Imaging.” Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientariam. 8(2): 21-37, 2020.

“‘But That’s Not Phenomenology!’: A Phenomenology of Discriminatory Technologies.” Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology. 21(1/2): 83-113, 2020.

“Hostile Design and the Materiality of Surveillance.” In H. Wiltse (Ed.), Relating to Things: Technology and the Artifactual. Bloomsbury, pp. 135-150, 2020.

“On Hostile Design: Theoretical and Empirical Prospects.” Urban Studies. 57(4): 883-893, 2020.

“The Experiential Niche: Or, On the Difference Between Smartphone and Passenger Driver Distraction.” Philosophy & Technology. 32(2): 303-320 2019.

“Why It Takes Both Postphenomenology and STS to Account for Technological Mediation: The Case of LOVE Park.” In J. Aagaard, J. K. B. Friis, J. Sorenson, O. Tafdrup, & C. Hasse (Eds.), Postphenomenological Methodologies: New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human Relationships. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 171-198, 2018.

“Notes on a Nonfoundational Phenomenology of Technology.” Foundations of Science. 22: 471-494, 2017.

“On the Hermeneutics of Everyday Things: Or, The Philosophy of Fire Hydrants.” AI & Society. 32: 233-241, 2017, 2017.

“The ICT Educator’s Fallacy.” Foundations of Science. 22: 395-399, 2017.

“On the Immersion of E-Reading (Or Lack Thereof).” In Y. Van Den Eede, S. O. Irwin, and G. Wellner (eds), Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 145-163, 2017.

“The Organization of User Experience.” In A. Shew & J. Pitt (eds.), Spaces for the Future: A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. New York: Routledge. pp. 185-195, 2017.

“Phenomenological Approaches to Technological Ethics.” In S. O. Hansson (ed.), The Ethics of Technology: Methods and Approaches. London: Rowman Littlefield, pp. 67-82, 2017.

“Husserl’s Missing Multistability.” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. 20(2): 153-167, 2016.

Le Dantec, C. A., C. Appleton, M. Asad, R. Rosenberger, & K. Watkins. “Advocating Through Data: Community Visibilities in Crowdsourcing Cycling Data.” In A. Golub, M. L. Hoffman, A. E. Lugo, & G. F. Sandoval (eds.), Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All? London: Routledge, pp. 70-85, 2016.

“Driver Distraction from Mobile and Wearable Computer Interface.” IEEE Technology & Society Magazine. 34(4): 88-99, 2015.

“An Experiential Account of Phantom Vibration Syndrome.” Computers in Human Behavior. 52: 124-131, 2015.

“Postphenomenology: What’s New? What’s Next?” In J. K. B. O. Friis & R. P. Crease (eds.), Technoscience & Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers. Lexington Books/Rowman Littlefield Press, pp. 129-148, 2015.

“A Field Guide for Postphenomenology.” Co-Authored with Peter-Paul Verbeek. In R. Rosenberger & P-P. Verbeek (eds.), Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations. Lexington Books/Rowman Littlefield Press, pp. 9-41, 2015.

“Multistability and the Agency of Mundane Artifacts: From Speed Bumps to Subway Benches.” Human Studies. 37: 369-392, 2014.

“The Phenomenological Case for Stricter Regulation of Cell Phones and Driving.” Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology. 18(1-2): 20-47, 2014.

“Google Glass and Highway Safety—Messy Choices.” IEEE Technology & Society Magazine. 33(2): 23-25, 2014.

“The Importance of Generalized Bodily Habits for a Future World of Ubiquitous Computing.” AI & Society. 28: 289-296, 2013.

“An Argument Against ‘No-Look’ Texting While Driving.” IEEE Technology & Society Magazine. 32(1): 53-59, 2013.

“The Problem with Hands-Free Dashboard Cell Phones.” Communications of the ACM. 56(4): 38-40, 2013.

“Mediating Mars: Perceptual Experience and Scientific Imaging Technologies.” Foundations of Science. 18: 75-91, 2013.

“How Simulations Fail.” Patrick Grim, Robert Rosenberger, Adam Rosenfeld, Brian Anderson, and Robb E. Eason. Synthese. 190: 2367-2390, 2013.

“Embodied Technology and the Problem of Using the Phone While Driving.” Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences. 11(1): 79-94, 2012.

A Phenomenological Defense of Computer-Simulated Frog Dissection.” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. 15(3): 215-228, 2011.

“A Case Study in the Applied Philosophy of Imaging: The Synaptic Vesicle Debate.” Science, Technology, & Human Values. 36(6): 6-32, 2011.

“A Phenomenology of Image Use in Science: Multistability and the Debate over Martian Gully Deposits.” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. 15(2): 156-169, 2011.

“The Spatial Experience of Telephone Use.” Environment, Space, Place. 2(2): 63-77, 2010.

“Perceptual Habituation and Image Interpretation in Neuroscience.” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine. 10(1): 18-20, 2010.

“The Sudden Experience of the Computer.” AI & Society. 24: 173-180, 2009.

“Quick-Freezing Philosophy: An Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology.” In J.-K. B. Olsen, E. Selinger, and S. Riis (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 65-82, 2009.

“The Habits of Computer Use.” International Journal of Computing & Information Technology. 1(1): 1-9, 2009.

“Perceiving Other Planets: Bodily Experience, Interpretation, and The Mars Orbiter Camera.” Human Studies. 31(1): 63-75, 2008.

Patrick Grim, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, Will Braynen, Evan Selinger, Robert Rosenberger, and Robb E. Eason “A Graphic Measure for Game-Theoretic Robustness.” Synthese. 163(2): 273-297 2008.

Robb Eason, Trina Kokalis, Evan Selinger, Robert Rosenberger, and Patrick Grim. “What Kind of Science is Simulation?” Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 19(1): 19-28, 2007.

“The Phenomenology of Slowly-Loading Webpages.” Ubiquity. 8(15), 2007.

Patrick Grim, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen, Evan Selinger, and Robb E. Eason. “Game-Theoretic Robustness in Cooperation and Prejudice Reduction: A Graphic Measure.” In L. M. Rocha, L. S. Yaeger, M. A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. L. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani (eds.) Artificial Life X. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 445-451, 2006.

Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. “Modeling Prejudice Reduction: Spatialized Game Theory and the Contact Hypothesis.” Public Affairs Quarterly. 19(2): 95-125, 2005.

“Bridging Philosophy of Technology and Neurobiological Research: Interpreting Images From the ‘Slam Freezer.’” Bulletin of Science, Technology, & Society. 25(6): 469-474, 2005.

Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. “Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis.” In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami, and R. A. Watson (eds.) Artificial Life IX. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 244-249, 2004.

C.. Book Reviews

“The Problem of Technology and Disability.” Review of Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, by Ashley Shew. Journal of Human-Technology Relations. 2(1), 2024.

Review of A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel. Rain Taxi. 20(1): 44-45, 2015.

“Technologies of Education: Classrooms and Chat Rooms, Scalpels and Screens.” Review of The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen, by Norm Friesen. Human Studies. 36: 307-313, 2013.

“The Body as Image Interpreter.” (essay review of Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics.) Philosophy & Technology. 25: 257-261, 2012.

“Deflating the Overblown Accounts of Technology: A review of Ihde’s Ironic Technics.” AI & Society. 133-136, 2010.

“Questioning Philosophers of Technology.” Review of Philosophy of Technology: 5 Questions, edited by Jan Kyre-Berg Olsen and Evan Selinger. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 35(1); 140-143, 2010.

Review of Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy, by Steven French. Quarterly Review of Biology. 84(3): 278-279, 2009.

“An Ambivalent, Postphenomenological Philosophy of Technology.” Review of What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design, by Peter-Paul Verbeek. Janus Head. 10(2): 640-646, 2008.

Review of Objectivity, by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. Quarterly Review of Biology. 83(3): 292-293, 2008.

“Seeing the World Through Technology and Art.” Review of Mediated Vision, edited by Petran Kockelkoren. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. 12(1): 90-97, 2008.

“Catching Up With Technoscience Studies.” Review of Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality, edited by Don Ihde and Evan Selinger. Human Studies. 29: 399-403, 2006.

Review of Science in Society, by Matthew David. Quarterly Review of Biology. 81(3): 267-268, 2006.

Review of Politics of Nature: How To Bring The Sciences Into Democracy, by Bruno Latour. Quarterly Review of Biology. 79(4), 404-405, 2004.

Review of Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists by Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Quarterly Review of Biology. 79(4), 405-406, 2004.