Technology and Values: Essential Readings

Craig Hanks

John Wiley & Sons, May 4, 2009 - Science - 560 pages

This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well.

• Useful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology
• Includes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics, as well as issues relating to gender, biotechnology, everyday artifacts, and architecture
• A good supplemental text for courses on moral or political problems in which contemporary technology is a unit of focus
• An accessible and thought-provoking book for beginning and advanced undergraduates; yet also a helpful resource for graduate students and academics

Contents

• General Introduction: 1
• Toward a Philosophy of Technology: 11
• Four Philosophies of Technology: 26
• The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values: 38
• A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: 49
• Technology and Ethics: 60
• The Autonomy of Technology: 67
• Artifice and Order: 76
• The Autonomy of Technology: 87
• The Question Concerning Technology: 99
• Man the Technician: 114
• Focal Things and Practices: 122
• A Phenomenology of Technics: 134
• The New Forms of Control: 159
• Technical Progress and the Social LifeWorld: 169
• The Critical Theory of Technology: 176
• Science and Society: 199
• Technology and Community Life: 206
• Science Technology and SocialistFeminism in the: 225
• Technological Ethics in a Different Voice: 247
• Introduction: 263
• Laboursaving or Enslaving? Judy Wajcman: 272
• Some Meanings of Automobiles: 289
• Introduction: 297
• Preventing a Brave New World: 311
• Food for Thought: 335
• Introduction: 359
• The Local History of Space: 373
• Urban Ecological Citizenship: 397
• Introduction: 415
• Environment Technology and Ethics: 431
• Deep Ecology: 454
• Just Garbage: 468
• Information Technologies Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values: 477
• Into the Electronic Millennium: 491
• Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer: 500
• The Social Life of Information: 510
• The Quest for Universal Usability: 522
• Bibliography: 531

About the author

Craig Hanks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he is past-chair of the Institutional Review Board. He was previously at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He specializes in philosophy of technology and applied philosophy, and has taught courses on engineering ethics, environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, and philosophy of technology. He is author of Refiguring Critical Theory (2002) and editor of Inner Space/Outer Space: The Humanities, Technology and the Postmodern World (1993); his monograph, Technological Musings: Reflections on Technology and Values, is forthcoming.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Technology and Values: Essential Readings; Essential readings
• Editor: Craig Hanks
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
• ISBN: 1405149000, 9781405149006
• Length: 560 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects