An analysis of the relationship between technology, ethics and culture. It covers topics that include: environmental ethics and the recovery of culture; media, identity and politics; technological enlightenment as a continuation of modern thinking; and, the rhetoric of eugenics.
An analysis of the relationship between technology, ethics and culture. It covers topics that include: environmental ethics and the recovery of cultur...
Carl Mitcham, Don MariettaJr., Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, Lester Embree
Hardbound. This volume of Research in Philosophy and Technology is guest edited by Marina Banchetti-Robino in association with Don E. Marietta Jr. and Lester Embree. In her introduction to the 10 major theme papers that deal with Philosophies of the Environment and Technology, Banchetti-Robino gives an account of the origin of this original collection, of the importance of the theme, and of the interrelated arguments advanced relative to the theme. This set of papers by a number of well-known figures in philosophical studies both on the environment and on technology - namely J. Baird...
Hardbound. This volume of Research in Philosophy and Technology is guest edited by Marina Banchetti-Robino in association with Don E. Marietta Jr. and...
Hardbound. Research in Philosophy and Technology: Volume 19 advances philosophical reflections on technology through a focus on metaphysical and epistemological issues. The contributors employ the resources of both the phenomenological and analytical traditions of contemporary philosophy in their work.Contributions include general proposals for the reform of the philosophy of technology; examinations of the work of major philosophers including Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Jonas, Ihde, and Merleau-Ponty; an extended argument for a more careful delineation of the difference between science and...
Hardbound. Research in Philosophy and Technology: Volume 19 advances philosophical reflections on technology through a focus on metaphysical and epist...
Until recently, the philosophy and history of science proceeded in a separate way from the philosophy and history of technology, and indeed with respect to both science and technology, philosophical and historical inquiries were also following their separate ways. Now we see in the past quarter-century how the philosophy of science has been profoundly in- fluenced by historical studies of the sciences, and no longer concerned so single-mindedly with the analysis of theory and explanation, with the re- lation between hypotheses and experimental observation. Now also we see the traditional...
Until recently, the philosophy and history of science proceeded in a separate way from the philosophy and history of technology, and indeed with respe...
