Readings in the Philosophy of TechnologyDavid M. Kaplan Readings in the Philosophy of Technology collects the important works of both the forerunners and contemporary theorists of philosophy of technology, addressing a wide range of topics on technology as it relates to ethics, politics, human nature, computers, science, food, and the environment. Compiled specifically with students and newcomers in mind, this book explores the multiple ways in which humanity shapes and affects technologies and is, in turn, shaped and affected by them. Readers will learn to understand, evaluate, appreciate, and criticize the ways that technology both reflects and changes human life-individually, socially, and culturally. Readings in the Philosophy of Technology is an ideal core text for undergraduate courses in Philosophy of Technology, Science, Technology, and Society, and Ethics and Technology. |
Contents
Do Machines Make History? | 7 |
Toward a Philosophy of Technology | 17 |
Question Concerning Technology | 35 |
Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology | 53 |
Social Implications of Technology | 63 |
Technical Progress and the Social LifeWorld | 81 |
The Culture of Technology | 95 |
Technologies as Forms of Life | 103 |
Technological Ethics in a Different Voice | 273 |
Do Artifacts Have Politics? | 289 |
Strong Democracy and Technology | 303 |
Socialism and the Democratic Planning of Technical Change | 319 |
The Insurgent Architect at Work | 337 |
Panopticism | 359 |
Enhancement Technology | 373 |
TwentyFirst Century Bodies | 381 |
Focal Things and Practices | 115 |
A Phenomenology of Technics | 137 |
A Cyborg Manifesto | 161 |
A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans | 179 |
Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature A Pragmatic Perspective | 191 |
Democratic Rationalization Technology Power and Freedom | 209 |
Technology and Responsibility | 231 |
Technology Demography and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights | 245 |
The Constitution in Cyberspace Law and Liberty beyond the Electronic Frontier | 259 |
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