Technology and the good life?
By: edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong.
Contributors: Higgs, Eric, 1958-; Light, Andrew, 1966-; Strong, David, 1955-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Technology -- Philosophy.; Technology -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY TODAY 17; title: 1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology 19; title: David Strong and Eric Higgs; title: 2. Philosophy of Technology. Retrospective and; title: Prospective Views 38; title: Paul T Durbin; title: II EVALUATING FOCAL THINGS 51; title: 3. Focal Things and Focal Practices 55; title: Lawrence Haworth; title: 4. Technology and Nostalgia 70; title: Gordon G. BrittanJr.; title: 5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform; title: of Technology 89; title: Larry Hickman; title: 6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemisse Betrachtungen:; title: On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place 106; title: Andrew Light; title: 7. On Character and Technology 126; title: Carl Mitcham; title: III THEORY IN THE SERVICE OF PRACTICE 149; title: 8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things 153; title: Phillip R. Fandozzi; title: 9. Farming as Focal Practice 166; title: Paul B. Thompson; title: 10. Design and the Reform of Technology:; title: Venturing Out into the Open 182; title: Jesse S. Tatum; title: 11. Nature by Design 195; title: Eric Higgs; title: IV EXTENSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES 213; title: 12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 219; title: Diane P Michelfelder; title: 13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with; title: Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace 234; title: Douglas Kellner; title: 14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity 256; title: Mora Campbell; title: 15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure; title: and the Entrenchment of the Device 271; title: Thomas Michael Power; title: 16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of; title: Technology at the Crossroads 294; title: Andrew Feenberg; title: 17. Philosophy in the Service of Things 316; title: David Strong; title: V POSTSCRIPT 339; title: 18. Reply to My Critics 341; title: Albert Borgmann; title: Afterword 371; title: Index 375.