Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction
Val Dusek
Blackwell Publishing
Philosophy of Technology
To my daughter Lela Dusek
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AN INTRODUCTION VAL DUSEK
? 2006 by Val Dusek
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1 2006
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Dusek, Val, 1941? Philosophy of technology : an introduction / Val Dusek.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1162-1 (hc. : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1163-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-4051-1162-3 (hc. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-1163-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Technology--Philosophy. I. Title.
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Contents
Introduction
1
1 Philosophy of Science and Technology
6
2 What Is Technology? Defining or Characterizing Technology 26
3 Technocracy
38
4 Rationality, Technological Rationality, and Reason
53
5 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Technology
70
6 Technological Determinism
84
7 Autonomous Technology
105
8 Human Nature: Tool-making or Language?
112
9 Women, Feminism, and Technology
136
10 Non-Western Technology and Local Knowledge
156
11 Anti-technology: Romanticism, Luddism, and the
Ecology Movement
176
12 Social Constructionism and Actor-network Theory
198
Bibliography
211
Index
234
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