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Author(s): Robert C. Scharff (ed.), Val Dusek (ed.)
ISBN(s): 9781118547250, 111854725X
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ISBN 10: 111854725X

ISBN 13:  978-1118547250

Author:  Robert C. Scharff, Val Dusek

The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary.

  • Remains the most comprehensive anthology on the philosophy of technology available
  • Includes editors’ insightful section introductions and critical summaries for each selection
  • Revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field
  • Combines difficult to find seminal essays with a judicious selection of contemporary material
  • Examines the relationship between technology and the understanding of the nature of science that underlies technology studies

Table of contents: 

Part I: The Historical Background

  1. Introduction

  2. On Dialectic and “Technē” — Plato

  3. On “Technē” and “Epistēmē” — Aristotle

  4. The Greek Concepts of “Nature” and “Technique” — Wolfgang Schadewaldt

  5. On the Idols, the Scientific Study of Nature, and the Reformation of Education — Francis Bacon

  6. Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View — Immanuel Kant

  7. The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy — Auguste Comte

  8. On the Sciences and Arts — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  9. Capitalism and the Modern Labor Process — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Part II: Philosophy, Modern Science, and Technology

  1. Positivist and Postpositivist Philosophies of Science

  2. The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle — Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath

  3. Paradigms and Anomalies in Science — Thomas Kuhn

  4. Experimentation and Scientific Realism — Ian Hacking

  5. Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Science — Patrick A. Heelan and Jay Schulkin

  6. What are Cultural Studies of Science? — Joseph Rouse

  7. Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women — Nancy Tuana

  8. Is Science Multicultural? — Sandra Harding

  9. On Knowledge and the Diversity of Cultures: Comment on Harding — Shigehisa Kuriyama

  10. The Task of a Philosophy of Technology

  11. Philosophical Inputs and Outputs of Technology — Mario Bunge

  12. Analytic Philosophy of Technology — Maarten Franssen

  13. On the Aims of a Philosophy of Technology — Jacques Ellul

  14. Toward a Philosophy of Technology — Hans Jonas

  15. The Technology Question in Feminism: A View from Feminist Technology Studies — Wendy Faulkner

Part III: Defining Technology

  1. Introduction

  2. Conflicting Visions of Technology — Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek

  3. The Mangle of Practice — Andrew Pickering

  4. The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts — Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker

  5. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) — Bruno Latour

  6. Actor-Network Theory: Critical Considerations — Sergio Sismondo

Part IV: Heidegger on Technology

  1. Introduction

  2. The Question Concerning Technology — Martin Heidegger

  3. On Philosophy’s “Ending” in Technoscience: Heidegger vs. Comte — Robert C. Scharff

  4. Focal Things and Practices — Albert Borgmann

  5. Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology — Hubert L. Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa

  6. Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads: Critique of Heidegger and Borgmann — Andrew Feenberg

Part V: Technology and Human Ends

  1. Human Beings as “Makers” or “Tool-Users”?

  2. Tool Users vs. Homo Sapiens and the Megamachine — Lewis Mumford

  3. The “Vita Activa” and the Modern Age — Hannah Arendt

  4. Putting Pragmatism (especially Dewey’s) to Work — Larry Hickman

  5. Buddhist Economics — E. F. Schumacher

  6. Is Technology Autonomous?

  7. The “Autonomy” of the Technological Phenomenon — Jacques Ellul

  8. Do Machines Make History? — Robert L. Heilbroner

  9. The New Forms of Control — Herbert Marcuse

  10. Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism — Sally Wyatt

Technology, Ecology, and the Conquest of Nature

  1. Mining the Earth’s Womb — Carolyn Merchant

  2. The Deep Ecology Movement — Bill Devall

  3. Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection — Ariel Salleh

  4. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity — Nick Bostrom

Part VI: Technology as Social Practice

  1. Technology and the Lifeworld

  2. Cultural Climates and Technological Advance in the Middle Ages — Lynn White, Jr.

  3. Three Ways of Being-With Technology — Carl Mitcham

  4. A Phenomenology of Technics — Don Ihde

  5. Postphenomenology of Technology — Peter-Paul Verbeek

  6. Technoscience Studies after Heidegger? Not Yet — Robert C. Scharff

Technology and Cyberspace

  1. Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds — Daniel C. Dennett

  2. Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian — Hubert L. Dreyfus

  3. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century — Donna Haraway

  4. A Moratorium on Cyborgs: Computation, Cognition, and Commerce — Evan Selinger and Timothy Engström

  5. Anonymity versus Commitment: The Dangers of Education on the Internet — Hubert L. Dreyfus

Technology, Knowledge, and Power

  1. Panopticism — Michel Foucault

  2. Do Artifacts Have Politics? — Langdon Winner

  3. The Social Impact of Technological Change — Emmanuel G. Mesthene

  4. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals, with the Author’s 2000 Retrospective — John McDermott

  5. Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Freedom — Andrew Feenberg

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