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 xi
Acknowledgments xii
Source Acknowledgments xiii
General Introduction 1
Craig Hanks
Section One Theoretical Reflections on Technology 7
Part I Introductory Considerations of Technology 9
1 Toward a Philosophy of Technology 11
Hans Jonas
2 Four Philosophies of Technology 26
Alan R. Drengson
3 The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values 38
William W. Lowrance
4 A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans 49
Bruno Latour
5 Technology and Ethics 60
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Part II Considering the Autonomy of Technology 65
6 The Autonomy of Technology 67
Jacques Ellul
7 Artifice and Order 76
Langdon Winner
8 The Autonomy of Technology 87
Joseph Pitt
Part III Existential and Phenomenological Considerations 97
9 The Question Concerning Technology 99
Martin Heidegger
10 Man the Technician 114
José Ortega y Gasset
11 Focal Things and Practices 122
Albert Borgmann
12 A Phenomenology of Technics 134
Don Ihde
Part IV Critical Theory 157
13 The New Forms of Control 159
Herbert Marcuse
14 Technical Progress and the Social Life-World 169
Jürgen Habermas
15 The Critical Theory of Technology 176
Andrew Feenberg
Part V Pragmatic Considerations 197
16 Science and Society 199
John Dewey
17 Technology and Community Life 206
Larry Hickman
Part VI Feminist Considerations 223
18 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century 225
Donna Haraway
19 Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 247
Diane P. Michelfelder
Section Two Applied Reflections on Technology and Value 259
Part VII Technology and Value in Everyday Life 261
Introduction 263
20 The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary 265
John McDermott
21 Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving? 272
Judy Wajcman
22 Some Meanings of Automobiles 289
Douglas Browning
Part VIII Values and BioTechnologies 295
Introduction 297
23 How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong 299
Daniel Callahan
24 Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral? 304
Laura M. Purdy
25 Preventing a Brave New World 311
Leon Kass
26 Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond 323
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis
27 Food for Thought 335
Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown
28 Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops 347
Paul B. Thompson
Part IX Urban Values 357
Introduction 359
29 The Highway and the City 361
Lewis Mumford
30 Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical Choices 369
Jessica Woolliams
31 The Local History of Space 373
Steven Moore
32 Community 385
Joseph Grange
33 Urban Ecological Citizenship 397
Andrew Light
Part X Environmental Values 413
Introduction 415
34 Why Mow? 417
Michael Pollan
35 Technology 423
Lori Gruen
36 Environment, Technology, and Ethics 431
Rajni Kothari
37 The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic 438
J. Baird Callicott
38 Deep Ecology 454
Bill Devall and George Sessions
39 Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique 460
Ramachandra Guha
40 Just Garbage 468
Peter S. Wenz
Part XI Immediate Challenges: Information Technologies, Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values 477
Introduction 479
41 Philosophy of Information Technology 481
Carl Mitcham
42 Into the Electronic Millennium 491
Sven Birkerts
43 Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer 500
Wendell Berry
44 In the Age of the Smart Machine 504
Shoshana Zuboff
45 The Social Life of Information 510
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
46 The Quest for Universal Usability 522
Ben Shneiderman
Bibliography 531
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)
