The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of technology and science and technology studies. ÍNDICE: Foreword; D.Ihde - Series Editorsb Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; J.K.Berg Olsen, E.Selinger & S.Riis - PARTI: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY - Homo Faber: The Unity of the History and Philosophy of Technology; K.Lee - Becoming Through Technology; J.K.Berg Olsen - PART II: TECHNOLOGY: EPISTEMIC AND METAPHYSICAL ISSUES - Quick-Freezing Philosophy: An Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology; R.Rosenberger - How To Read Technology Critically; D.Kaplan - The Mcluhans and Metaphysics; G.Harman - The Question Concerning Thinking; S.Riis - Understanding Technology Ontotheologically, or: The Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, An American Perspective; I.Thomson - PART III: TECHNOLOGY: ETHICAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES - Human Enhancement and Personal Identity; P.Brey - The Future of Humanity; N.Bostrom - Technology, the Environment, and the Moral Considerability of Artifacts; B.Hale - Cultivating Humanity: Toward a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology; P-P.Verbeek - PART IV: COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY - Technology Transfer and Globalization: A New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?; E.Selinger - Philosophy of Technology as Empirical Philosophy: Comparing Technological Scales in Practice; C.Bruun Jensen & C.Gad - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21999-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 24/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés