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

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Edition:2nd ed.
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
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Table of 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.