Interpreting Technology - Ricoeur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology

Interpreting Technology puts Ricoeur's work at the center of contemporary philosophical thinking concerning technology. It investigates his project of critical hermeneutics, the growing ethical and political impacts of technologies on the modern lifeworld, and ways of analyzing global sociotechnical systems such as the Internet.

List of contents

Introduction: Ricoeur's philosophy of technology Mark Coeckelbergh, Alberto Romele, Wessel Reijers
Part I: Ricoeur and theories of technology
1. Hermeneutics of Technology Beyond the Empirical Turn Jos de Mul
2. Postphenomenology and the Hermeneutic Ambiguity of Technology Eoin Carney
3. How Flat Should We Keep the Social? Jonne Hoek & Bas de Boer
4. Ricœur and Feminist Cyberontology Annemie Halsema / 5. How Ricœur Reads Technology Critically David Kaplan
Part II: Ricoeur's ethics, education, and politics of technology
6. Digital Hermeneutics and Ethics Noel Fitzpatrick
7. Can there be a Science of Education? David Lewin
8. Reading the Body Geoffrey Dierckxsens
9. Thinking Feminist Technologies of Memory Marjolaine Deschenes
10. Technology, Innovation and Responsibility Guido Gorgoni & Robert Gianni
Part III: Ricoeur and modern technologies
11. Reversed Hermeneutics Bruno Gransche
12. Paul Ricoeur and the Second Digital Turn Alain Loute
13.The Force of Action in the Technological Polis Todd Mei
14. Moral Capability and Biomedical Neuroenhancement Eileen Brennan
References / Index

About the author

Edited by Wessel Reijers; Alberto Romele and Mark Coeckelbergh

Product details

• Authors: Mark Romele Coeckelbergh, Wessel Romele Reijers
• Assisted by: Mark Coeckelbergh (Editor), Coeckelbergh Mark (Editor), Wessel Reijers (Editor), Alberto Romele (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781538153468
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5346-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Philosophy, Technology and Society; Philosophy, Technology and Soc; Philosophy, Technology, and So
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Ethics & moral philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge