Social and philosophical constructions of technology

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Social and philosophical constructions of technology

editor, Carl Mitcham

(Research in philosophy & technology : a research annual, v. 15, 1995)

JAI Press, 1995

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Bibliography: p. 241-413 (part 5)

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This 15th volume in the series covers such topics as technological frames in a town planning controversy, geometric constructions and the constructions of geometry, and money, technology and the tragedy of culture in the thought of George Simmel.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Theme section
  • technological frames in a town planning controversy - why we do not have to drop constructivism to avoid political abstinence, Eduardo Aibar
  • geometric constructions and the constructions of geometry, Noel Gray
  • money - technology and the tragedy of culture in the thought of George Simmel, John E Jalbert
  • the social assessment of technology paradox, Jose' Antonio Lopez Cerezo and Carl Mitcham
  • is technology autonomous?, Eduardo Sabrovsky
  • problematic stimulation - historians and sociologists constructing technology studies, John Staudenmaier
  • the political construction of technology - a call for constructive technology assessment, Jesse Tatum. Part 2 on the thoughts of Jacques Ellul - Aristotle and Ellul - political phronesis and the politics of technique, Joseph Vincenzo
  • Manheim and Ellul on the problem of freedom in a technological society - planned society or technological civilization?, Daryl Wennemann. Part 3 Symposium on David Rothenberg's Hand's End - contextualizing the problem of nature and technology, Andrew Light
  • the discomforts of home - nature and technology in Hands Ends, Dwight Furrow
  • nature at arm's length, David Abram
  • Rothenberg, Ramelli and Heidegger - considerations on otherness, David Lovekin
  • feet on the ground - responses to Hands End, David Rothenberg
  • discussion of David Rothenberg's Hand's End, David Abram et al. Part 4 Current discussion and conference reports
  • three questions on hyperreality, Andrew Light
  • postmodern ontology, Albert Borgman
  • Epistemology and ethics in engineering, Anne Francoise Schmid
  • rethinking technology, Leonard J Waks and Carl Mitcham. Part 5 Russian philosophy of technology - a prefatory note, Carl Mitcam
  • methodological research and problems in the technological sciences - a review of the literature in Russian, Vitaly G Gorokhov
  • taking science fiction seriously - a bibliographic introduction to Stanislaw Lem's philosophy of technology, Bernd Graefrath
  • Jacques Ellul - a comprehensive bibliography update (1985/1993), Joyce Hanks.

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  • NCID
    BA27047348
  • ISBN
    • 1559388862
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Greenwich, Conn.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 423 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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