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This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well. * Useful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology * Includes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics, as well as issues relating to gender, biotechnology, everyday artifacts, and architecture * A good supplemental text for courses on moral or political problems in which contemporary technology is a unit of focus * An accessible and thought-provoking book for beginning and advanced undergraduates; yet also a helpful resource for graduate students and academics

Table of Contents:
List of figures

Acknowledgments

Source Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Section One: Theoretical Reflections on Technology

Part I: Introductory Considerations of Technology

1. Toward a Philosophy of Technology: Hans Jonas

2. Four Philosophies of Technology: Alan R. Drengson

3. The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values: William W.Lowrance

4. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Bruno Latour

5. Technology and Ethics: Kristen Shrader-Frechette

Part II: Considering the Autonomy of Technology

6. The Autonomy of Technology: Jacques Ellul

7. Artifice and Order: Langdon Winner

8. The Autonomy of Technology: Joseph Pitt

Part III: Existential and Phenomenological Considerations

9. The Question Concerning Technology: Martin Heidegger

10. Man the Technician: José Ortega y Gasset

11. Focal Things and Practices: Albert Borgmann

12. A Phenomenology of Technics: Don Ihde

Part IV: Critical Theory

13. The New Forms of Control: Herbert Marcuse

14. Technical Progress and the Social Life-World: Jürgen Habermas

15. The Critical Theory of Technology: Andrew Feenberg

Part V: Pragmatic Considerations

16. Science and Society: John Dewey

17. Technology and Community Life: Larry Hickman

Part VI: Feminist Considerations

18. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentith Century: Donna Haraway

19. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice: Diane P. Michelfelder

Section Two: Applied Reflections on Technology and Value

Part VII: Technology and Value in Everyday Life
Introduction

20. The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary: John McDermott

21: Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving?: Judy Wajcman

22. Some Meanings of Automobiles: Douglas Browning

Part VIII: Values and BioTechnologies

Introduction

23. How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong: Daniel Callahan

24. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral?: Laura M. Purdy

25. Preventing a Brave New World: Leon Kass

26: Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis

27. Food for Thought: Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown

28. Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops: Paul Thompson

Part IX: Urban Values

Introduction

29. The Highway and the City: Lewis Mumford

30. Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical Choices: Jessica Woolliams

31. The Local History of Space: Steven Moore

32. Community: Joseph Grange

33. Urban Ecological Citizenship: Andrew Light

Part X: Environmental Values

Introduction

34. Why Mow?: Michael Pollan

35. Technology: Lori Gruen

36. Environment, Technology, and Ethics: Rajni Kothari

37. The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic: J. Baird Callicott

38. Deep Ecology: Bill Devall and George Sessions

39. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique: Ramachandra Guha

40. Just Garbage: Peter S. Wenz

Part XI: Immediate Challenges: Information Technologies, Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values

Introduction

41. Philosophy of Information Technology: Carl Mitcham

42. Into the Electronic Millennium: Sven Birkerts

43. Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer: Wendell Berry

44. In the Age of the Smart Machine: Shoshana Zuboff

45. The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

46. The Quest For Universal Usability: Ben Shneiderman

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405149006
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Depth: 38
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 1133 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1405149000
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 560
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Essential Readings
  • Width: 180 mm

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