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Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Scharff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Comte After Positivism (1995; 2002) and the former editor of Continental Philosophy Review (1995-2005). He publishes on 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy (especially Dilthey, Heidegger, and the hermeneutics of science), the history of positivism (especially Comte and Mill, and the connection between classical positivism and recent analytic philosophy), and the philosophy of technology. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, "How History Matters to Philosophy" and a collection of essays on Heidegger and technology, and editing a Blackwell Guidebook Series volume on Heidegger's Being and Time . Val Dusek is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of science and technology, with a particular interest in the social factors influencing scientific and technological development. He has written on non-mainstream philosophical influences (Asiatic, hermetic, romantic) on the history of electro-magnetic theory. His numerous publications include Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and co-editorship of the first edition of this volume. Klappentext The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary.* Remains the most comprehensive anthology on the philosophy of technology available* Includes editors' insightful section introductions and critical summaries for each selection* Revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field* Combines difficult to find seminal essays with a judicious selection of contemporary material* Examines the relationship between technology and the understanding of the nature of science that underlies technology studies Zusammenfassung The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Source Acknowledgments ix Introduction to the Second Edition xiii Part I The Historical Background 1 Introduction 3 1 On Dialectic and "Techne¿" 9 Plato 2 On "Techne¿" and "Episte¿me¿" 19 Aristotle 3 The Greek Concepts of "Nature" and "Technique" 25 Wolfgang Schadewaldt 4 On the Idols, the Scientific Study of Nature, and the Reformation of Education 33 Francis Bacon 5 Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View 47 Immanuel Kant 6 The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy 54 Auguste Comte 7 On the Sciences and Arts 68 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 8 Capitalism and the Modern Labor Process 74 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Part II Philosophy, Modern Science, and Technology 89 Positivist and Postpositivist Philosophies of Science 91 9 The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle 101 Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath 10 Paradigms and Anomalies in Science 111 Thomas Kuhn 11 Experimentation and Scientific Realism 121 Ian Hacking 12 Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Science 131 Patrick A. Heelan and Jay Schulkin 13 What are Cultural Studies of Science? 147 Joseph Rouse 14 Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women 161 Nancy Tuana 15 Is Science Multicultural? 171 Sandra Harding 16 On Knowledge and the Diversity of Cultures: Comment on Harding 183 Shigeh...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Source Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the Second Edition xiii
Part I The Historical Background 1
Introduction 3
1 On Dialectic and "Techne" 9
Plato
2 On "Techne" and "Episteme" 19
Aristotle
3 The Greek Concepts of "Nature" and "Technique" 25
Wolfgang Schadewaldt
4 On the Idols, the Scientific Study of Nature, and the Reformation of Education 33
Francis Bacon
5 Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View 47
Immanuel Kant
6 The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy 54
Auguste Comte
7 On the Sciences and Arts 68
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8 Capitalism and the Modern Labor Process 74
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Part II Philosophy, Modern Science, and Technology 89
Positivist and Postpositivist Philosophies of Science 91
9 The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle 101
Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath
10 Paradigms and Anomalies in Science 111
Thomas Kuhn
11 Experimentation and Scientific Realism 121
Ian Hacking
12 Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Science 131
Patrick A. Heelan and Jay Schulkin
13 What are Cultural Studies of Science? 147
Joseph Rouse
14 Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women 161
Nancy Tuana
15 Is Science Multicultural? 171
Sandra Harding
16 On Knowledge and the Diversity of Cultures: Comment on Harding 183
Shigehisa Kuriyama
The Task of a Philosophy of Technology 187
17 Philosophical Inputs and Outputs of Technology 191
Mario Bunge
18 Analytic Philosophy of Technology 201
Maarten Franssen
19 On the Aims of a Philosophy of Technology 205
Jacques Ellul
20 Toward a Philosophy of Technology 210
Hans Jonas
21 The Technology Question in Feminism: A View from Feminist Technology Studies 224
Wendy Faulkner
Part III Defining Technology 239
Introduction 241
22 Conflicting Visions of Technology 249
Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek
23 The Mangle of Practice 260
Andrew Pickering
24 The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts 266
Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker
25 Actor-Network Theory (ANT) 278
Bruno Latour
26 Actor-Network Theory: Critical Considerations 289
Sergio Sismondo
Part IV Heidegger on Technology 297
Introduction 299
27 The Question Concerning Technology 305
Martin Heidegger
28 On Philosophy's "Ending" in Technoscience: Heidegger vs. Comte 318
Robert C. Scharff
29 Focal Things and Practices 329
Albert Borgmann
30 Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology 350
Hubert L. Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa
31 Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads: Critique of Heidegger and Borgmann 362
Andrew Feenberg
Part V Technology and Human Ends 375
Human Beings as "Makers" or "Tool-Users"? 377
32 Tool Users vs. Homo Sapiens and the Megamachine 381
Lewis Mumford
33 The "Vita Activa" and the Modern Age 389
Hannah Arendt
34 Putting Pragmatism (especially Dewey's) to Work 406
Larry Hickman
35 Buddhist Economics 421
E. F. Schumacher
Is Technology Autonomous? 426
36 The "Autonomy" of the Technological Phenomenon 430
Jacques Ellul
37 Do Machines Make History? 442
Robert L. Heilbroner
38 The New Forms of Control 449
Herbert Marcuse
39 Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism 456
Sally Wyatt
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"The second edition of Philosophy of Technology is a must-read for everyone trying to sort out how societies, technologies, politics, and nature come together, tacitly or not, in the constitution of human knowledge."
-- Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, University of Copenhagen
"This is an excellent selection of primary sources, essential to understanding technology and the conceptual debates about it. The editors are to be congratulated for their sensible choices and judicious introductions."
--Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford
