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Title Technology and the changing face of humanity / [edited by] Richard Feist, Chantal Beauvais, and Rajesh Shukla
Published Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Series Philosophica, 1480-4670
Collection Philosophica.
Contents Technology and the Body: A New or an Old Anthropology? -- Foucault, la technologie et l'homme -- The Changing Faces of War and Humanity -- Natural Disasters and Human Responsibilities -- Intellectual Property, the IT Industry, and Market Freedoms in the Global Arena -- Moral Mediators in a Technological World -- L'historicité de la technologie comme historicité eschatologique -- Persona Gratia: Integral Personalism, Democracy, and Maritain's Subjugation of Technique in Education -- Technology and the Remarking of Human Existence -- Technology, Religion, and Human Destiny -- Philosophy of Gene-Being: A Prolegomenon
Summary A philosophical examination of technology's influence. It explores the relationship between technology and free will. Rejecting the notion of technology as a neutral addition to our lives, it also examines the type and degree of our society's technological dependence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 27, 2016)
Subject Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY -- Free Will & Determinism.
Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Technology -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Feist, Richard, 1964- editor.
Shukla, Rajesh, 1970- editor.
Beauvais, Chantal, 1963- editor.
ISBN 9780776618937
0776618938
9780776618920
077661892X