New Waves in Philosophy of Technology

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

• ISBN13: 9780230219991
• ISBN10: 0230219993
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of technology and science and technology studies.

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 Figuers	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
Series Preface	p. xiv
Acknowledgments	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
Understading Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective	p. 146
Technology: Ethical and Political Issues
Human Enhancement and Personal Identity	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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