Portuguese Philosophy of Technology Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community
This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil. Their contributions detail a unique perspective on technology, placing this important topic within...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Pathways in the Philosophy of Technology in the Portuguese-Speaking Community
- Part I Modern Technology and Aporias of Progress
- 2. António Sérgio: Critical Rationalism and Technology
- 3. The God of Artefacts: Vico’s Principle and Technology
- 4. Technique, Readiness-to-Hand and Development
- 5. Three Essays on Technique, the Artificial and the New Human
- 6. Technology and the Lifeworld in Miguel Baptista Pereira
- 7. Amílcar Cabral: Technology, Agriculture and Colonialism
- Part II Technology, Risk and Values
- 8. Riscophrenia: The Risk Fallacy and the Repression of Uncertainty
- 9. Four Visions of Technology
- 10. The Specificity of Technological Knowledge
- 11. Lost in Translation: Ethics and Engineering Practice
- 12. Critique of the Western Technological Hegemony and Neo-Animism in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
- Part III Technoscene and Postmodern World
- 13. Mediatization: From Gutenberg to Unlimited Media and Datafication
- 14. The Virtualization of the Archive.-15. Law-Technology Lag or ‘Law as Technology’ in the Big Data Age
- 16. Ontotechnologies of the Body: Technoperformativity and Processes of Subjectivation
- 17. Solidary Technoscience: A Concept for the Philosophy of Technology
- 18. Commercially-Oriented Technoscience and the Need for Multi-Strategic Research