Research Catalog

Title

Readings in the philosophy of technology / [edited by] David M. Kaplan.

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaplan, David M.

Description

xviii, 583 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Subject

Technology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. I. Philosophical perpsectives. The question concerning technology / Martin Heidegger -- Heidegger on gaining a free relation to technology / Hubert Dreyfus -- The new forms of control / Herbert Marcuse -- John Dewey as a philosopher of technology / Larry Hickman -- Focal things and practices / Albert Borgmann -- A phenomenology of technics / Don Ihde -- Philosophy of technology meets social constructivism : a shopper's guide / Philip Brey -- Women and the assessment of technology : to think, to be; to unthink, to free -- Design methodology and the nature of technical artifacts / Peter Kroes -- Democratic rationalization : technology, power, and freedom / Andrew Feenberg -- A collective of humans and nonhumans : following Daedalus's labyrinth / Bruno Latour -- Pt. II. Technology and ethics. Technology and responsibility / Hans Jonas -- Technology, demography, and the anachronism of traditional rights / Robert E. McGinn -- Technological ethics in a different voice / Diane Michelfelder -- NEST-ethics : patterns of moral argumentation about new and emerging science and technology / Tsjalling Swierstra and Arie Rip -- Moralizing technology : on the morality of technological artifacts and their design / Peter-Paul Verbeek --
• Pt. III. Technology and politics. Do artifacts have poltiics? / Langdon Winner -- Panopticism / Michel Foucault -- Strong democracy and technology / Richard E. Sclove -- Bigger monster, weaker chains : the growth of an American surveillance society / Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt -- The constitution in cyberspace : law and liberty beyond the electronic frontier / Laurence H. Tribe -- Technology transfer and globalization / Evan Selinger -- Pt. IV. Technology and human nature. The transhumanist FAQ / Nick Bostrom -- Twenty-first century bodies / Ray Kurzweil -- Why computers may never think like people / Hubert Dreyfus and Stuart Dreyfus -- Interactional expertise and embodiment / Even Selinger, Hubert Dreyfus, and Harry Collins -- Genetic interventions and the ethics of enhancement of human beings / Julian Savulescu -- What's wrong with enhancement technology? / Carl Elliot -- Pt. V. The big lie : human restoration of nature / Erik Katz -- Ecological restoration and the culture of nature : a pragmatic perspective / Andrew Light -- The brave new world of animal biotechnology / Strachan Donnelley -- Ethics and genetically modified food / Gary Comstock -- What's wrong with functional foods? / David M. Kaplan -- Pt. VI. Technology and science. When is an image not an image? / Joseph Pitt -- Scientific visualism / Don Ihde -- Laboratories / Bruno Latour -- Science policy and moral purity : the case of animal biotechnology / Paul B. Thompson -- Technologies of humility : citizen participation in governing science / Sheila Jasanoff.

ISBN

• 9780742564008 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0742564002 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780742564015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0742564010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780742565364 (electronic)
• 074256536X (electronic)

LCCN

^^2008055410

OCLC

• 297222741
• SCSB-10213575

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library