Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture Putting Pragmatism to Work

Name: Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture Putting Pragmatism to Work
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ISBN: 9780253214447

ISBN-10: 0253214440

ISBN-13: 9780253214447

Edition: 2001

Authors: Larry A. Hickman

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Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture contends that technology - a defining mark of contemporary culture - should be a legitimate concern of philosophers. Larry A. Hickman contests the popular notions that philosophy is little more than a narrow academic discipline and that philosophical discourse is little more than re-description of the ancient past. Drawing inspiration from John Dewey, one of America's greatest public philosophers, Hickman validates the role of philosophers as cultural critics and reformers in the broadest sense. Hickman situates Dewey's critique of technological culture within the debates of twentieth-century Western philosophy by engaging the work of Richard…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Philosophy in a High-Tech World



Tuning Up Technology



Technology and Community Life



Productive Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Agape



Art, Technoscience, and Social Action



Technoscience Education for a Lifelong Curriculum



Literacy, Mediacy, and Technological Determinism



Populism and the Cult of the Expert



Hope, Salvation, and Responsibility



The Next Technological Revolution


Notes


Bibliography


Index