TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaplan,David M.
TI  - Readings in the philosophy of technology
SN  - 9780742565364
AV  - T14 
U1  - 601 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Technologie
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Filosofie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. Students will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human
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