| Description |
xv, 542 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
General introduction / Craig Hanks -- Theoretical reflections on technology -- Introductory considerations of technology -- Toward a philosophy of technology / Hans Jonas -- Four philosophies of technology / Alan Drengson -- The relation of science and technology to human values / William W. Lowrance -- A collective of humans and nonhumans / Bruno Latour -- Technology and ethics / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- Considering the autonomy of technology -- The autonomy of technology / Jacques Ellul -- Artifice and order / Langdon Winner -- The autonomy of technology / Joseph Pitt -- Existential and phenomenological considerations -- The question concerning technology / Martin Heidegger -- Man the technician / José Ortega y Gasset -- Focal things and practices / Albert Borgmann -- A phenomenology of technics / Don Ihde -- Critical theory -- The new forms of control / Herbert Marcuse -- Technical progress and the social life-world / Jürgen Habermas -- The critical theory of technology / Andrew Feenberg -- Pragamatic considerations -- Science and society / John Dewey -- Technology and community life / Larry A. Hickman -- Feminist considerations -- A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway -- Technological ethics in a different voice / Diane Michelfelder -- Applied reflections on technology and value -- Technology and value in everyday life -- The aesthetic drama of the ordinary / John J. McDermott -- Domestic technology: labour-saying or enslaving? / Judy Wajcman -- Some meanings of automobiles / Douglas Browning -- Values and biotechnologies -- How splendid technologies can go wrong / Daniel Callahan -- Genetics and reproductive risk : can having children be immoral? / Laura Purdy -- Preventing a brave new world / Leon Kass -- Ethical issues in human stem cell research : embryos and beyond / Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and Marin Gillis -- Food for thought / Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown -- Value judgments and risk comparisons : the case of genetically -- Engineered crops / Paul Thompson -- Urban values -- The highway and the city / Lewis Mumford -- Designing cities and buildings as if they were ethical choices / Jessica Woolliams -- The local history of space / Steven Moore -- Community / Joseph Grange -- Urban ecological citizenship / Andrew Light -- Environmental values -- Why mow? / Michael Pollan -- Technology / Lori Gruen -- Environment, technology, and ethics / Rajni Kothari -- The conceptual foundations of the land ethic / J. Baird Callicott -- Deep ecology / Bill Devall and George Sessions -- Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation -- A third world critique / Ramachandra Guha -- Just garbage / Peter Wenz -- Immediate challenges : information technologies -- Technological systems and the future of human values -- Philosophy of information technology / Carl Mitcham -- Into the electronic millennium / Sven Birkets -- Why I am not going to buy a computer / Wendell Berry -- Dilemmas of transformation in the age of the smart machine / Shoshana Zuboff -- Limits to information / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid -- The quest for universal usability / Ben Shneiderman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [531]-542) and index |
| Subject |
Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Author |
Hanks, Craig.
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| LC no. |
2008054060 |
| ISBN |
9781405149006 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781405149013 paperback alkaline paper |
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