New Waves in Philosophy of Technology [electronic resource] /
Berg Olsen, Jan Kyrre.author.
Selinger, E.editor.
Riis, S.editor.
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.
Includes index.
Homo faber: the unity of the history and philosophy of technology / Keekok Lee -- Becoming through technology / Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen -- Quick-freezing philosophy: an analysis of imaging technologies in neurobiology / Robert Rosenberger -- How to read technology critically / David M. Kaplan -- The McLuhans and metaphysics / Graham Harman -- The question concerning thinking / Søren Riis -- Understanding technology ontotheologically, or the danger and the promise of Heidegger, an American perspective / IainThomson -- Human enhancement and personal identity / Philip Brey -- The future of humanity / Nick Bostrom -- Technology, the environment, and the moral considerability of artefacts / Benjamin Hale -- Cultivating humanity : towards a non-humanist ethics of technology / Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Technology transfer and globalization : a new wave for philosophy of technology? / Evan Selinger -- Philosophy of technology as empirical philosophy : comparing technological scales in practice / Caspar Bruun Jensen and Christopher Gad.
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.
Philosophy and science.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Social Philosophy.
Philosophy of Technology.