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This wide-ranging collection of original essays explores how individual and societal beliefs, values, and actions are transformed by science, technology, and engineering. Practical and theoretical insights from a global cohort of philosophers, policymakers, STS scholars, and engineers illuminate the perils and promise of technoscientific change.
List of contents
ForewordCarl Mitcham
PrefaceGlen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu
Chapter 1: Editors' IntroductionGlen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu
Part I: Philosophy and TechnologyCh 2: The Enigma of TechnologyAndrew Feenberg
Chapter 3: Organization as Technique: A Blind Spot in the Philosophy of TechnologyDaniel Cérézuelle, translation by Christian Roy
Chapter 4: Technology as ProcessMark Coeckelbergh
Chapter 5: Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo StraussCarl Mitcham
Chapter 6: The Nuclear Menace and the Prophecy of DoomJean-Pierre Dupuy
Chapter 7: The End of Technology and the Renewal of RealityAlbert Borgmann
Part II: Philosophy and EngineeringChapter 8: An Engineer Considers Technological (Non)Neutrality: "But Where Are the Values?Byron Newberry
Chapter 9: How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics EducationJanna van Grunsven, Lavinia Marin, Taylor Stone, Sabine Roeser & Neelke Doorn
Chapter 10: Parallel Steps toward Philosophy of Engineering in China and WestNan WANG and LI Bocong
Chapter 11: The Development of the Philosophy of Engineering in China: Engaging the Scholarship of Carl MitchamTong LI and Yongmou LIU
Part III: Religion, Science, and TechnologyChapter 12: Christianity, Power, and Technological Domination: A Typological Approach to the ChurchJosé Antonio Ullate
Chapter 13: Technology in Cosmic Terms: The World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, 1948Jennifer Karns Alexander
Chapter 14: Beyond Tools, Means, and Ends: Explorations into the Post-Instrumental ErehwonJean Robert
Chapter 15: Understanding Bureaucratic Order: The Theological Paradigms of Modern HierarchySajay Samuel
Chapter 16: What Religion, What Technology? A Wittgensteinian ApproachAndoni Alonso
Chapter 17: Bioethics, Philosophy, and Religious Wisdom: A Critical Assessment of Leon Kass's ThoughtLarry Arnhart
Part IV: Science and Technology StudiesChapter 18: Ethics and the Search for Scientific Knowledge: The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth? Carlos Verdugo-Serna
Chapter 19: A Short History of Science, Truth, and Politics in the United States, 1945-2021Daniel Sarewitz
Chapter 20: Moral Narratives of Technological Change in the Early Green RevolutionSuzanne Moon
Chapter 21: Momentum, Interrupted: Developing Habits of Discernment in Engineering and BeyondJen Schneider
Chapter 22: Innovation Policy Driven by the Market: The Second Great DisembeddednessJosé Luís Garcia
Part V: Science and Technology PolicyChapter 23: Irrational Energy EthicsAdam Briggle
Chapter 24: Paradoxical Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women's Farming, Oil, and Sustainable DevelopmentTricia Glazebrook and Gordon Akon-Yamga
Chapter 25: The Pandemic and Clamor for Vaccines: Ethical-Legal Considerations for Intellectual Property Rights and Technology SharingPamela Andanda
Chapter 26: An Effective History of the Basic-Applied Distinction in "Science" PolicyJ. Britt Holbrook
Chapter 27: Technological Risks, Institutional Wariness, and the Dynamics of TrustJosé A. López Cerezo
About the ContributorsIndexAbout the Editors
About the author
Glen Miller is instructional associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has co-edited
Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde (with Ashley Shew).
Helena Mateus Jerónimo is assistant professor in the School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She has edited
Portuguese Philosophy of Technology and is a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology.
Qin Zhu is associate professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. He is the lead author of the 5th edition of
Ethics in Engineering.
