New Waves in Philosophy of Technology

by Berg Olsen, Jan Kyrre; Selinger, Evan; Riis, Søren

• ISBN13: 9780230220003
• ISBN10: 0230220002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume on the philosophy of tecnology collects new work by the most talented young philosophers in the subject. It is a unique collection that crosses the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, showing that the rising challenges and extraordinary new possibilities brought about by technological developments necessitate the emergence of new forms of critical philosophical reflection. Thought-provoking and rigorous, this book will stimulate and direct further philosophical research for students and researchers in philosophy of science and technology. Book jacket.

Author Biography

JAN KYRRE BERG OLSEN teaches theory of science at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  He is co-editor (with Evan Selinger) of Five Questions in Philosophy of Technology (2007)
 
EVAN SELINGER is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His books include: Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality, Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde, The Philosophy of Expertise, Five Questions: Philosophy of Technology, and Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging.  SØREN RIIS is a Research Fellow at the University of Roskilde, Denmark.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
Series Preface	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Notes on the Contributors	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
History of Philosophy and Technology
Homo faber: the Unity of the History and Philosophy of Technology	p. 13
Becoming through Technology	p. 40
Technology: Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues
Quick-Freezing Philosophy: an Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology	p. 65
How to Read Technology Critically	p. 83
The McLuhans and Metaphysics	p. 100
The Question Concerning Thinking	p. 123
Understanding Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective	p. 146
Technology: Ethical and Political Issues
Human Enhancement and Personal Indentity	p. 169
The Future of Humanity	p. 186
Technology, the Environment and the Moral Considerability of Artefacts	p. 216
Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology	p. 241
Comparative Philosophy of Technology
Technology Transfer and Globalization: a New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?	p. 267
Philosophy of Technology as Empirical Philosophy: Comparing Technological Scales in Practice	p. 292
Index	p. 315
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