Technology and Responsibility

Since it may seem strange for a new series to begin with volume 3, a word of explanation is in order. The series, Philosophy and Technology, inaugurated in this form with this volume, is the official publication of the Society for Philosophy & Technology. Approximately one volume each year is to...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Durbin, P.T. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:Philosophy and Technology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Responsibility and Technology: The Expanding Relationship
  • Philosophical Anthropology and the Problem of Responsibility in Technology
  • Technoscience: Nihilistic Power versus a New Ethical Consciousness
  • Phenomenology and the Autonomy of Technology
  • The Autonomy of Technology
  • Technique and Responsibility: Think Globally, Act Locally, according to Jacques Ellul
  • Increasing Responsibility as Technological Destiny? Human Reproductive Technology and the Problem of Meta-Responsibility
  • Commercializing Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Issues
  • Incontinence and Biomedicine: Examples from Puyallup Indian Medical Ethnohistory
  • Homo Generator: The Challenge of Gene Technology
  • The Modern Babylon Culture
  • Religion, Technology, and Human Autonomy
  • Societal Role of Dutch Freshwater Ecologists in Environmental Policies
  • Risk Assessment as Social Research
  • Toward a Philosophy of Engineering and Science in R &.D Settings
  • Engineers as Social Activists: A Defense
  • The Real Risks of RiskCost-Benefit Analysis
  • Responsibility and Technology: A Select, Annotated Bibliography
  • Index of Names