Marc J. De Vries Sven Ove Hansson Anthonie W. M. Meijers
This book is a distinctive fusion of philosophy and technology, delineating the normative landscape that informs today s technologies and tomorrow s inventions. The authors examine what we deem to be the internal norms that govern our ever-expanding technical universe. Recognizing that developments in technology and engineering literally create our human future, transforming existing knowledge into tomorrow s tools and infrastructure, they chart the normative criteria we use to evaluate novel technological artifacts: how, for example, do we judge a good from a bad expert system or nuclear...
This book is a distinctive fusion of philosophy and technology, delineating the normative landscape that informs today s technologies and tomorrow ...
As our modem society is so obviously influenced by technology, there is a growing awareness of its importance for education. The interest for including technology as a part of general education curricula is increasing. In many countries technology is an element in the curriculum either as a topic, a project, part of a Science-Technology-Society (STS) programme, part of science education, or as a separate subject. In order to clarify what technology is, there is a need for international discussions in which philosophers, engineers, scientists and educational ists are involved. One of the few...
As our modem society is so obviously influenced by technology, there is a growing awareness of its importance for education. The interest for includin...
