New waves in philosophy of technology
Title:
New waves in philosophy of technology
Author:
Friis, Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, 1963-
ISBN:
9780230219991
9780230220003
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Publication Information:
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.
Physical Description:
xix, 322 p. ; 23 cm.
Series:
New waves in philosophy
Series Title:
New waves in philosophy
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Includes index.
Contents:
Homo faber: the unity of the history and philosophy of technology / Keekok Lee -- Becoming through technology / Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen -- Quick-freezing philosophy: an analysis of imaging technologies in neurobiology / Robert Rosenberger -- How to read technology critically / David M. Kaplan -- The McLuhans and metaphysics / Graham Harman -- The question concerning thinking / Søren Riis -- Understanding technology ontotheologically, or the danger and the promise of Heidegger, an American perspective / IainThomson -- Human enhancement and personal identity / Philip Brey -- The future of humanity / Nick Bostrom -- Technology, the environment, and the moral considerability of artefacts / Benjamin Hale -- Cultivating humanity : towards a non-humanist ethics of technology / Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Technology transfer and globalization : a new wave for philosophy of technology? / Evan Selinger -- Philosophy of technology as empirical philosophy : comparing technological scales in practice / Caspar Bruun Jensen and Christopher Gad.
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Electronic Access:
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