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This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well. Useful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology Includes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics, as well as issues relating to gender, biotechnology, everyday artifacts, and architecture A good supplemental text for courses on moral or political problems in which contemporary technology is a unit of focus An accessible and thought-provoking book for beginning and advanced undergraduates; yet also a helpful resource for graduate students and academics

Table of Contents:
List of figures Acknowledgments Source Acknowledgments General Introduction Section One: Theoretical Reflections on Technology Part I: Introductory Considerations of Technology 1. Toward a Philosophy of Technology: Hans Jonas 2. Four Philosophies of Technology: Alan R. Drengson 3. The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values: William W.Lowrance 4. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Bruno Latour 5. Technology and Ethics: Kristen Shrader-Frechette Part II: Considering the Autonomy of Technology 6. The Autonomy of Technology: Jacques Ellul 7. Artifice and Order: Langdon Winner 8. The Autonomy of Technology: Joseph Pitt Part III: Existential and Phenomenological Considerations 9. The Question Concerning Technology: Martin Heidegger 10. Man the Technician: José Ortega y Gasset 11. Focal Things and Practices: Albert Borgmann 12. A Phenomenology of Technics: Don Ihde Part IV: Critical Theory 13. The New Forms of Control: Herbert Marcuse 14. Technical Progress and the Social Life-World: Jürgen Habermas 15. The Critical Theory of Technology: Andrew Feenberg Part V: Pragmatic Considerations 16. Science and Society: John Dewey 17. Technology and Community Life: Larry Hickman Part VI: Feminist Considerations 18. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentith Century: Donna Haraway 19. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice: Diane P. Michelfelder Section Two: Applied Reflections on Technology and Value Part VII: Technology and Value in Everyday Life Introduction 20. The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary: John McDermott 21: Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving?: Judy Wajcman 22. Some Meanings of Automobiles: Douglas Browning Part VIII: Values and BioTechnologies Introduction 23. How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong: Daniel Callahan 24. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral?: Laura M. Purdy 25. Preventing a Brave New World: Leon Kass 26: Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis 27. Food for Thought: Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown 28. Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops: Paul Thompson Part IX: Urban Values Introduction 29. The Highway and the City: Lewis Mumford 30. Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical Choices: Jessica Woolliams 31. The Local History of Space: Steven Moore 32. Community: Joseph Grange 33. Urban Ecological Citizenship: Andrew Light Part X: Environmental Values Introduction 34. Why Mow?: Michael Pollan 35. Technology: Lori Gruen 36. Environment, Technology, and Ethics: Rajni Kothari 37. The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic: J. Baird Callicott 38. Deep Ecology: Bill Devall and George Sessions 39. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique: Ramachandra Guha 40. Just Garbage: Peter S. Wenz Part XI: Immediate Challenges: Information Technologies, Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values Introduction 41. Philosophy of Information Technology: Carl Mitcham 42. Into the Electronic Millennium: Sven Birkerts 43. Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer: Wendell Berry 44. In the Age of the Smart Machine: Shoshana Zuboff 45. The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid 46. The Quest For Universal Usability: Ben Shneiderman Bibliography

About the Author :
Craig Hanks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he is past-chair of the Institutional Review Board. He was previously at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He specializes in philosophy of technology and applied philosophy, and has taught courses on engineering ethics, environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, and philosophy of technology. He is author of Refiguring Critical Theory (2002) and editor of Inner Space/Outer Space: The Humanities, Technology and the Postmodern World (1993); his monograph, Technological Musings: Reflections on Technology and Values, is forthcoming.

Review :
"Overall, Technology and Values represents an excellent collection of readings, ranging from classical yet ever timely readings on the nature of technology itself, to cutting edge articles on recent technological developments in the applied sphere. Due to its unique broad and comprehensive coverage of the subject matter, coupled with its comprehensive bibliography, this book is an excellent tool for both graduate and undergraduate courses." ( Agric Hum Values , 2011) "For its size and scope this collection docs a remarkable job of addressing a critical need for greater scholarly and public attention to questions of technology and values in contemporary culture. It is a rich and versatile resource for anyone interested in such questions, and this reviewer hopes that future editions will only improve on its virtues." ( Technology and Culture , April 2010)


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  • ISBN-13: 9781405149006
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 560
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 1133 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1405149000
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essential Readings
  • Width: 180 mm


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