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New Waves in Philosophy of Technology

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ISBN-10: 0230219993

ISBN-13: 9780230219991

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger, S�ren Riis, Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger

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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.
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Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 322
Size: 5.59" wide x 7.26" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Robert P. Crease is a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and has written extensively on issues at the intersection of science and society.Evan Selinger is assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is the editor of Chasing Techno-Science: Matrix for Materialityand coeditor of Expanding Phenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde.

List of Figuers
Foreword
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
History of Philosophy and Technology
Homo faber: the Unity of the History and Philosophy of Technology
Becoming through Technology
Technology: Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues
Quick-Freezing Philosophy: an Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology
How to Read Technology Critically
The McLuhans and Metaphysics
The Question Concerning Thinking
Understading Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective
Technology: Ethical and Political Issues
Human Enhancement and Personal Identity
The Future of Humanity
Technology, the Environment and the Moral Considerability of Artefacts
Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology
Comparative Philosophy of Technology
Technology Transfer and Globalization: a New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?
Philosophy of Technology as Empirical Philosophy: Comparing Technological Scales in Practice
Index