Philosophy and Technology
Only recently has the phenomenon of technology become an object of in terest for philosophers. The first attempts at a philosophy of technology date back scarcely a hundred years - a span of time extremely short when com pared with the antiquity of philosophical reflections on nature, science, and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1983, 1983
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1983 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Analytical Table of Contents
- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology
- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology
- I / Can Technological Development Be Regulated?
- Can Government Regulate Technology?
- Social Implications of Recent Technological Innovations
- Technology and Human Rights
- Technology Assessment, Facts and Values
- A Critique of Technological Determinism
- Techne and Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society
- II / Technology Assessment
- Technoaxiology: Appropriate Norms for Technology Assessment
- Comment: What Is Alternative Technology? A Reply to Professor Stanley Carpenter
- The Prospects for Technology Assessment
- Technology Assessment and the Problem of Quantification
- Forecast, Value, and the Recent Phenomenon of Non-Acceptance: The Limits of a Philosophy of Technology Assessment
- III / Responsibilities Toward Nature
- The Viability of Environmental Ethics
- Notes on Extended Responsibility and Increased Technological Power
- What Sort of Technology Permits the Language of Nature? Conditions for Controlling Nature-Domination Constitutionally
- IV / Metaphysical and Historical Issues
- The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology over Science
- The Origins of Modern Technology in Millenarianism
- The Religious and Political Origins of Modern Technology
- From the Phenomenon to the Event of Technology (A Dialectical Approach to Heidegger’s Phenomenology)
- Pragmatism, Transcendental Arguments, and the Technological
- V / Directions for Philosophy of Technology
- The Cultural Character of Technology
- The Import of Social, Political, and Anthropological Considerations in an Adequate Philosophy of Technology
- Philosophy of Technology: Problems of a Philosophical Discipline
- Name Index