{"product_id":"philosophy-of-technology-isbn-9781118547250","title":"Philosophy of Technology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRemains the most comprehensive anthology on the philosophy of technology available\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes editors’ insightful section introductions and critical summaries for each selection\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRevised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines difficult to find seminal essays with a judicious selection of contemporary material\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the relationship between technology and the understanding of the nature of science that underlies technology studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSource Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction to the Second Edition xiii\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Historical Background 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 On Dialectic and “Technē” 9\u003cbr\u003e Plato\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On “Technē” and “Epistēmē” 19\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Greek Concepts of “Nature” and “Technique” 25\u003cbr\u003e Wolfgang Schadewaldt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 On the Idols, the Scientific Study of Nature, and the Reformation of Education 33\u003cbr\u003e Francis Bacon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View 47\u003cbr\u003e Immanuel Kant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy 54\u003cbr\u003e Auguste Comte\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 On the Sciences and Arts 68\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Capitalism and the Modern Labor Process 74\u003cbr\u003e Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Philosophy, Modern Science, and Technology 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePositivist and Postpositivist Philosophies of Science 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle 101\u003cbr\u003e Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Paradigms and Anomalies in Science 111\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Kuhn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Experimentation and Scientific Realism 121\u003cbr\u003e Ian Hacking\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Science 131\u003cbr\u003e Patrick A. Heelan and Jay Schulkin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 What are Cultural Studies of Science? 147\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Rouse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women 161\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Tuana\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Is Science Multicultural? 171\u003cbr\u003e Sandra Harding\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 On Knowledge and the Diversity of Cultures: Comment on Harding 183\u003cbr\u003e Shigehisa Kuriyama\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Task of a Philosophy of Technology 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Philosophical Inputs and Outputs of Technology 191\u003cbr\u003e Mario Bunge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Analytic Philosophy of Technology 201\u003cbr\u003e Maarten Franssen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 On the Aims of a Philosophy of Technology 205\u003cbr\u003e Jacques Ellul\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Toward a Philosophy of Technology 210\u003cbr\u003e Hans Jonas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Technology Question in Feminism: A View from Feminist Technology Studies 224\u003cbr\u003e Wendy Faulkner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Defining Technology 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Conflicting Visions of Technology 249\u003cbr\u003e Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Mangle of Practice 260\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Pickering\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts 266\u003cbr\u003e Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Actor-Network Theory (ANT) 278\u003cbr\u003e Bruno Latour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Actor-Network Theory: Critical Considerations 289\u003cbr\u003e Sergio Sismondo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV Heidegger on Technology 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Question Concerning Technology 305\u003cbr\u003e Martin Heidegger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 On Philosophy’s “Ending” in Technoscience: Heidegger vs. Comte 318\u003cbr\u003e Robert C. Scharff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Focal Things and Practices 329\u003cbr\u003e Albert Borgmann\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology 350\u003cbr\u003e Hubert L. Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads: Critique of Heidegger and Borgmann 362\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Feenberg\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V Technology and Human Ends 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Beings as “Makers” or “Tool-Users”? 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Tool Users vs. Homo Sapiens and the Megamachine 381\u003cbr\u003e Lewis Mumford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The “Vita Activa” and the Modern Age 389\u003cbr\u003e Hannah Arendt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Putting Pragmatism (especially Dewey’s) to Work 406\u003cbr\u003e Larry Hickman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Buddhist Economics 421\u003cbr\u003e E. F. Schumacher\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs Technology Autonomous? 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The “Autonomy” of the Technological Phenomenon 430\u003cbr\u003e Jacques Ellul\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Do Machines Make History? 442\u003cbr\u003e Robert L. Heilbroner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The New Forms of Control 449\u003cbr\u003e Herbert Marcuse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism 456\u003cbr\u003e Sally Wyatt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology, Ecology, and the Conquest of Nature 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Mining the Earth’s Womb 471\u003cbr\u003e Carolyn Merchant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 The Deep Ecology Movement 482\u003cbr\u003e Bill Devall\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection 491\u003cbr\u003e Ariel Salleh\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 In Defense of Posthuman Dignity 495\u003cbr\u003e Nick Bostrom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart VI Technology as Social Practice 503\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology and the Lifeworld 505\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Cultural Climates and Technological Advance in the Middle Ages 511\u003cbr\u003e Lynn White, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Three Ways of Being-With Technology 523\u003cbr\u003e Carl Mitcham\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 A Phenomenology of Technics 539\u003cbr\u003e Don Ihde\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Postphenomenology of Technology 561\u003cbr\u003e Peter-Paul Verbeek\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Technoscience Studies after Heidegger? Not Yet 573\u003cbr\u003e Robert C. Scharff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology and Cyberspace 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds 588\u003cbr\u003e Daniel C. Dennett\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian 597\u003cbr\u003e Hubert L. Dreyfus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century 610\u003cbr\u003e Donna Haraway\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 A Moratorium on Cyborgs: Computation, Cognition, and Commerce 631\u003cbr\u003e Evan Selinger and Timothy Engström\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Anonymity versus Commitment: The Dangers of Education on the Internet 641\u003cbr\u003e Hubert L. Dreyfus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology, Knowledge, and Power 648\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 Panopticism 654\u003cbr\u003e Michel Foucault\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Do Artifacts Have Politics? 668\u003cbr\u003e Langdon Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 The Social Impact of Technological Change 680\u003cbr\u003e Emmanuel G. Mesthene\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals, with the Author’s 2000 Retrospective 693\u003cbr\u003e John McDermott\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Freedom 706\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Feenberg\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert C. Scharff\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eComte After Positivism\u003c\/i\u003e (1995; 2002) and the former editor of \u003ci\u003eContinental Philosophy Review\u003c\/i\u003e (1995-2005). He publishes on 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy (especially Dilthey, Heidegger, and the hermeneutics of science), the history of positivism (especially Comte and Mill, and the connection between classical positivism and recent analytic philosophy), and the philosophy of technology. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, “How History Matters to Philosophy” and a collection of essays on Heidegger and technology, and editing a Blackwell Guidebook Series volume on Heidegger’s \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVal Dusek\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of science and technology, with a particular interest in the social factors influencing scientific and technological development. He has written on non-mainstream philosophical influences (Asiatic, hermetic, romantic) on the history of electro-magnetic theory. His numerous publications include \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Technology: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and co-editorship of the first edition of this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUnrivalled in scope and valuable editorial content, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition\u003c\/i\u003e remains the most comprehensive anthology of philosophy of technology available. The second edition includes new and updated material on recent developments in the field, along with updates to the editors’ insightful critical introductions to each topic. It combines seminal essays with an updated selection of contemporary material to reflect changes in the field and in the world since the appearance of the first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to its analysis of the familiar political, social, cultural, and engineering contexts affecting the nature of technology, the volume includes a thorough examination of the influence exerted on technology by historical, metaphysical, and epistemological concerns. It moves from readings on traditional concepts of \u003ci\u003etechne\u003c\/i\u003e, natural knowledge, and human nature, to the latest assessments of inherited paradigms, rooted in Enlightenment thinking, concerning science, technology, and the philosophy of technology. A substantial portion of the anthology focuses on Heidegger’s writings on technology and their influence, and on a variety of questions animated by his work that interrogate technology’s connection to the current human condition, especially in the developed world. Further essays consider the proper place of technological practice in human life, the apparent autonomy of technological forces, the idea of technology as a social practice and as a medium of political power, and technology’s role as a model for contemporary conceptions of intelligence and information.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“The second edition of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003emust-read\u003c\/i\u003e for everyone trying to sort out how societies, technologies, politics, and nature come together, tacitly or not, in the constitution of human knowledge.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, University of Copenhagen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is an excellent selection of primary sources, essential to understanding technology and the conceptual debates about it. The editors are to be congratulated for their sensible choices and judicious introductions.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989781889253,"sku":"NP9781118547250","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118547250.jpg?v=1761785445","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/philosophy-of-technology-isbn-9781118547250","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}