Values and Technology: Religion and Public Life

ISBN-13: 9781138540231 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 180 str.

James Burk; Gabriel R. Ricci

Opis

In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance

Spis treści

1: Information Ethics: A Critical Assessment; 2: Teaching Values in Computing Courses through Theory and Practice; 3: Problems of Technology; 4: Human Nature Unbound: Why Becoming Cyborgs and Taking Drugs Could Make Us More Human 1; 5: Natural Rightism and the Biogenetic Debate; 6: Taking Life: Science-Based Justifications in the Third Reich; 7: Do the Facts Matter? The Politicization of Science and the Betrayal of the American Trust; 8: Recommitting vs. Selling Out: The Subtle Industrial Revolution among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; 9: Technology, Tribes, and Environmental Racism: From Techno-Oppression to Tribal Sovereignty; 10: A Recession in the Economy of Trust 1

O autorze

James Burk