Hans Oberdiek, Mary Tiles

Living in a Technological Culture (eBook, PDF)

Human Tools and Human Values

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Technology is no longer confined to the laboratory but has become an established part of our daily lives. Its sophistication offers us power beyond our human capacity which can either dazzle or threaten; it depends who is in control.
Living in a Technological Culture challenges traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between `man-and-machine'. It argues that contemporary science does not shape technology but is shaped by it. Neither discipline exists in a moral vacuum, both are determined by politics rather than scientific inquiry.
By questioning our existing uses of technology, this book opens up wider debate on the shape of things to come and whether we should be trying to change them now. As an introduction to the philosophy of technology this will be valuable to students, but will be equally engaging for the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134911165
• Artikelnr.: 39054736

Autorenporträt

Mary Tiles is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii; she is the author of various books including Bachelard: Science and Objectivity (1984); An Introduction to Historical Epistemology with Jim Tiles (1993) and Mathematics and the Image of Reason (1991), which is published by Routledge. Hans Oberdiek is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Conflicting Visions of Technology
Chapter 2 Facts, Values and Efficiency
Chapter 3 Science, Scientific Method and the Authority of Experts
Chapter 4 From Applied Science to Technoscience
Chapter 5 Technology, Culture and Politics
Chapter 6 Plant Breeding and the Politics of Hunger
Chapter 7 Who's Responsible for this Mess?