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Research in philosophy and technology Carl Mitcham

Research in philosophy and technology By Carl Mitcham

Research in philosophy and technology by Carl Mitcham


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An analysis of the relationship between technology, ethics and culture. It covers topics that include: environmental ethics and the recovery of culture; media, identity and politics; technological enlightenment as a continuation of modern thinking; and, the rhetoric of eugenics.

Research in philosophy and technology Summary

Research in philosophy and technology by Carl Mitcham

This volume provides an analysis of the relationship between technology, ethics and culture. Topics covered in this title include: environmental ethics and the recovery of culture; media, identity and politics; technological enlightenment as a continuation of modern thinking; and, the rhetoric of eugenics.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Twente University Symposium on technology, ethics and culture: introduction - The place on the map, Pieter Tijmes, Peter-Paul Verbeek; The courage to be a Cyborg, Hans J. Achterhuis; Environmental ethics and the recovery of culture, Paul van Dijk; Toward a technological intimacy with things, Petran Kockelkoren; Labour as communication and communication as labour, Doede Nauta, Louk Eduard Fleischhacker; Scarcity, labour and modern technology, Pieter Tijmes. Part 2 Colorado School of Mines Symposium in environmental studies: Preface, Arthur B. Sacks; 'Peasant science' - a new paradigm of sustainable development? David Frossard; Kelly and the Wheelies, Peter Hartley; The evolution of 'wetlands' as regulatory concept, Karen B. Wiley. Part 3 Symposium on Douglas Kellner's media culture: Introduction to the symposium, Eric Higgs; Kellner's reconstruction of critical theory - media culture and culture studies, Raymond A. Morrow; Media, identity and politics, Andrew Light; Media culture, social theory and cultural studies, douglas Kellner. Part 4 Additional theme papers: New assisted-conception technologies - social dimensions and democratic participation, Immaculada de Melo-Martin; Technological enlightenment as a continuation of modern thinking, Gunter Ropohl; religious belief and the influence of technology, William Sweet. Part 5 Reviews - Technology: Technology and postmodernism, Ian Dowbiggin; Technoculture, R. Shannon Duval; Rabinow's PCR story, Robert G. Hudson; Of spokes and social change, Amy Lee Knisley; On the necessity of moral judgements, Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik; technological controversies, Paul B. thompson; The sublime rhetoric of technology, Pieter Tijmes. Part 6 Reviews - Science: Time remains elusive, Peter Fredericks; How important are individual scientists? Zeno G. Swijtink. Part 7 Reviews - Nature: environmental crisis, historical crisis, and Heidigger's place, Diane Michelfelder; Beyond the wilderness ideal, Roderick Nicholls; With friends like this, wilderness needs no enemies, David Rothenberg. Part 8 Reviews - Medicine: Spinethics - revolution in evolution? Monica Arruda; The rhetoric of Eugenics, Brian Jonathan Garrett; Medical positivism. Mary Ann McClure. Part 9 Reviews - Marx's legacy: Renascent marxism, John P. Burke; approaches to Adorno, Dennis Hudecki.

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NPB9780762304141
9780762304141
0762304146
Research in philosophy and technology by Carl Mitcham
New
Hardback
Emerald Publishing Limited
1998-04-23
410
N/A
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