Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On Practical Philosophy On Practical Philosophy

Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On practical Philosophy explores the problems of developing a perspective on technology and society, on the limits of enlightment, the relationship between cultural criticism and the epistemology of practical knowledge, tacit knowledge and a non-elitist conceptio...

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Other Authors: Göranzon, Bo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:Human-centred Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Section I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Section II. On Practical Philosophy -- 2. The Practical Intellect and Master-Apprenticeship -- 3. From Montaigne to Diderot: Pascal, Jansenism and the Dialectics of Inner Theater -- 4. Imaginary Confessions -- 5. Rameau’s Nephew. Dialogue as Gesamtkunstwerk for Enlightenment (with constant reference to Plato) -- 6. Morals in the “Theatre of the World” -- 7. The Traditions of Dialogue and the Future of Philosophy -- 8. Comments -- Section III. Acting as a Model for Skill -- 9. We Must Safeguard the Freedoms of our Craft -- 10. Some Reflections on Diderot’s Paradox -- 11. The Actor as Paradigm? -- 12. Actors and Acting -- 13. Comments -- Section IV. Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein — A Meeting of Different Traditions of Knowledge -- 14. Beyond All Certainty -- 15. Thoughts on Acting and the Play Beyond All Certainty: Great Escape Theatre Company -- 16. The Legacy of Turing — On the Limits of the Calculable --  
505 0 |a 17. “Nothing is Hidden” -- 18. Turing and Wittgenstein — Two Perceptions of Reality -- 19. Carved in Stone or Carried by the Wind? -- 20. Experiment, Science, Literature -- 21. Scientific “Fact-Fictions” -- 22. Comments -- Section V. Education and the Information Society -- 23. Some Enigma Variations: A Selection of Dialogues Prompted by Turing’s Work -- 24. The Two Cultures in Engineering -- 25. A Confrontation between Different Traditions of Knowledge. An Example from Working Life -- 26. Engineering, Culture and Competence -- 27. Engineering Training with a Human Face: The I-Program at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm -- 28. The Systems Analysis Skill -- 29. Comments -- Section VI. On Diderot, Analogy and Mathematics -- 30. Diderot, Implicit Knowledge and Architecture: The Experience of Analogy -- 31. On Mathematicsat the Time of the Enlightenment, and Related Topics -- 32. Interdisciplinary Scope --  
505 0 |a 33. Mathematics, Professional Knowledge and Technology: The Role of Mathematics in Society -- 34. Comments -- Section VII. Epilogue -- 35. Diderot and Dialogue: Reflections on the Stockholm Conference -- 36. Themes and Possibilities -- Name Index 
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520 |a Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On practical Philosophy explores the problems of developing a perspective on technology and society, on the limits of enlightment, the relationship between cultural criticism and the epistemology of practical knowledge, tacit knowledge and a non-elitist conception of expertise, the role of the arts as a basis for reflection, and many other relevant topics. The 1993 international conference in Stockholm was - among other things - part of a process of building a curriculum for an international graduate programme in the area of culture, skill and technology, a process that has been under way since 1989