Philosophies of the Environment and Technology

by Banchetti-Robino; Marietta; Embree

• ISBN13: 9780762304394
• ISBN10: 0762304391
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-23
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Summary

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 Callicott, Don Ihde, Larry Hickman, Don E. Marietta Jr., Lester Embree, Frederick Ferreacute;, and Holmes Rolston III - together with a few younger scholars - Tim Casey, Marina Banchetti-Robino and Robert Frodeman - opens new pathways in both environmental philosophy and the philosophy of technology.

Table of Contents

General introduction

Philosophies of the Environment and Technology

Introduction

After the industrial paradigm, what?

Phil-tech meets eco-phil: the environment

Green pragmatism: reals without realism, ideals without idealism

Decisions regarding technology: the human factor

Architecture as environmental philosophy

Hermeneutic technics: the case of nuclear reactors

The rebirth of Gaia and the closure of homo technologicus

Personal environmental phenomenology, or the examination of electric vehicle technology

On matter and machines: an environmental speculation

A managed earth and the end of nature?

Symposium on Michael Zimmerman's Contesting Earth's Future

Zimmerman on feminism, truth, and objectivity

"All in post": on Michael Zimmerman's Contesting Earth's Future

On Michael Zimmerman's Contesting Earth's Future

Recognizing the limits of Contesting Earth's Future

Review Essays

Critique in communication and philosophy: an emerging dialogue?

Lorenzo Simpson's conversations with technology, modernity, and postmodernity: some critical reflections

Cyborgs and other machines

Discussion

Can there be a techno-ethical community? A response to Paul Durbin after After Virtue by Alasdair Macintyre

Reviews: Technology, Science, and Culture

Slaves of the machine?

Birth to death

Should and are computers replacing workers?

Robert Boyle's unsociable truths

Hitting the outskirts

Time is money

A journey toward liberation

Another angle on STS

Thinking video

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