Technology and everyday life
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Technology and everyday life
(Research in philosophy & technology : a research annual, v. 14,
JAI Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume is divided into a theme section, a contemporary discussion and a review section. Within those sections, it deals with such topics as the technology-culture spiral, explaining medical technology and enlightenment and technology.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theme section: guest editor's introduction, George Allen
- altered states - images of technology in two prime time syndicated television series, Mark Giese
- Albert Borgmann and John Dewey on everyday technology, Peter Limper
- Don Dellilo and Daniel Boorstin - white noise as an illustration of technology and democracy, Kathryn A. Walterscheid
- parenting technology, Elizabeth Dodson Gray
- challenging technology, David Strong
- the technology-culture spiral - three examples of technological development in everyday life, Ingo Braun
- the match and other agents of liberation - the role of technology in the social thought of Louise Otto, Ingrid H. Soudek and Kathryn A. Neeley
- technology - artistic medium and muse, H. Wendell Howard
- Whitehead and Heidegger on technological goodness, Joseph Grange
- making the everyday, George Allen. Part 2 Contemporary discussion: Bacon and Pascal on mastery over nature, Douglas Groothuis
- enlightenment and technology - outline for a general ethics of technology, Heiner Hastedt
- technology as art and the spheres of freedom and necessity, Fred Evans
- middle level theory in Ellul's thought - where theory and practice meet, Daryl J. Wennemann
- instrumental realism and the idea of embodied knowledge, Don Ross
- artificial intelligence and human personality, Albert Borgmann. Part 3 Review section: explaining medical technology, Joseph D. Bronzino et al
- medical technology and society - an interdisciplinary perspective, toward civilization change, Andrew Feenberg
- critical theory of technology, reviewed by Paul T. Durbin
- the magic of technology, Juan David Garcia Bacca
- de magica a tecnica - ensayo de teatro filosofico-literario-tecnico, reviewed by James A. Lynch
- myths of the future, Peter Schwartz
- the art of the long view, reviewed by Darryl Farber
- evolutionary theory and technology, George Basalia
- the evolution of technology, reviewed by Juan F. Ilerbaig
- science, technology and power - further than Foucault, Stanley Aronowitz
- science as power - discourse and ideology in modern society, J.R. Ravetz
- the merger of knowledge with power - essays in critical science, Wolfgang Sachs
- the development dictionary - a guide to knowledge as power, reviewed by Carl Mitcham
- understanding risk, H.W. Lewis
- technological risk, Deborah Mayo and Ranchelle Hollander
- acceptable evidence - science and values in risk management, K.S. Shrader-Frechette
- risk and rationality, reviewed by Paul B. Thompson
- constructivist STS, Dennis W. Cheek
- thinking constructively about science, technology and society education, reviewed by William F. Williams.
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