Technology and values
Subtitle: essential readings
By: edited by Craig Hanks.
Contributors: Hanks, Craig.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781405149006; 9781405149013
Subjects: Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-542).
Table of contents: title: pt. I: Introductory considerations of technology.  Toward a philosophy of technology / Hans Jonas; title: Four philosophies of technology / Alan R. Drengson; title: The relation of science and technology to human values / William W. Lowrance; title: A collective of humans and nonhumans / Bruno Latour; title: Technology and ethics / Kristin Shrader-Frechette; title: pt. II: Considering the autonomy of technology.  The autonomy of technology / Jacques Ellul; title: Artifice and order / Langdon Winner; title: The autonomy of technology / Joseph Pitt; title: pt. III: Existential and phenomenological considerations.  The question concerning technology / Martin Heidegger; title: Man the technician / José Ortega y Gasset; title: - Focal things and practices / Albert Borgmann; title: A phenomenology of technics / Don Ihde; title: pt. IV: Critical theory.  The new forms of control / Herbert Marcuse; title: Technical progress and the social life-world / Jürgen Habermas; title: The critical theory of technology / Andrew Feenberg; title: pt. V: Pragmatic considerations.  Science and society / John Dewey; title: Technology and community life / Larry Hickman; title: pt. VI: Feminist considerations.  A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway; title: Technological ethics in a different voice / Diane P. Michelfelder; title: pt. VII: Technology and value in everyday life. Introduction; title: The aesthetic drama of the ordinary / John McDermott; title: Domestic technology : labour-saving or enslaving? / Judy Wajcman; title: Some meanings of automobiles / Douglas Browning; title: pt. VIII: Values and biotechnologies. Introduction; title: How splendid technologies can go wrong / Daniel Callahan; title: Genetics and reproductive risk : Can having children be immoral? / Laura M. Purdy; title: Preventing a Brave New World / Leon Kass; title: Ethical issues in human stem cell research : embryos and beyond / Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis; title: Food for thought / Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown; title: Value judgments and risk comparisons : the case of genetically engineered crops / Paul B. Thompson; title: pt. IX: Urban values. Introduction; title: The highway and the city / Lewis Mumford; title: Designing cities and buildings as if they were ethical choices / Jessica Woolliams; title: The local history of space / Steven Moore; title: Community / Joseph Grange; title: Urban ecological citizenship / Andrew Light; title: pt. X: Environmental values. Introduction; title: Why mow? / Michael Pollan; title: Technology / Lori Gruen; title: Environment, technology, and ethics / Rajni Kothari; title: The conceptual foundations of the land ethic / J. Baird Callicott; title: Deep ecology / Bill Devall and George Sessions; title: Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation : a Third World critique / Ramachandra Guha; title: Just garbage / Peter S. Wenz; title: pt. XI: Immediate challenges : information technologies, technological systems, and the future of human values. Introduction; title: Philosophy of information technology / Carl Mitcham; title: Into the electronic millennium / Sven Birkerts; title: Why I am not going to buy a computer / Wendell Berry; title: In the age of the smart machine / Shoshana Zuboff; title: The social life of information / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid; title: The quest for universal usability / Ben Shneiderman.