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Hans Achterhuis is a Professor of Philosophy at Twente University, who writes about development aid, welfare work, and scarcity. In the area of technology studies, his current interest is in the relation between time and technology. He is editor of The Matter of Technology (in Dutch).
Robert P. Crease is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is author of Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory 1946-1972 and The Play of Nature: Experimentation as
Performance (Indiana University Press). He is a columnist for Physics World.
List of contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Foreword Don Ihde
Introduction: American Philosophers of Technology Hans Achterhuis
1. Albert Borgmann: Technology and the Character of Everyday Life Pieter Tijmes
2. Hubert Dreyfus: Humans Versus Computers Philip Brey
3. Andrew Feenberg: Farewell to Dystopia Hans Achterhuis
4. Donna Haraway: Cyborgs for Earthly Survival? Ren Munnik
5. Don Ihde: The Technological Lifeworld Peter-Paul Verbeek
6. Langdon Winner: Technology as a Shadow Constitution Martijntje Smits
Contributors
Index
About the author
Hans Achterhuis is a Professor of Philosophy at Twente University, who writes about development aid, welfare work, and scarcity. In the area of technology studies, his current interest is in the relation between time and technology. He is editor of The Matter of Technology (in Dutch).
Robert P. Crease is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and a historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is author of Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory 1946-1972 and The Play of Nature: Experimentation as
Performance (Indiana University Press). He is a columnist for Physics World.
Summary
The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winner - are shown to represent an empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America.
