A companion to the philosophy of technology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
Other Authors: Friis, Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, 1963-, Pedersen, Stig Andur, 1943-, Hendricks, Vincent F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 43.
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Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • History of technology / Thomas J. Misa
  • Definitions of technology / Richard Li-Hua
  • Western technology / Keld Nielsen
  • Chinese technology / Francesca Bray
  • Islamic technology / Thomas F. Glick
  • Japanese technology / David Wittner
  • Technology and war / Bart Hacker
  • Technology and science / Don Ihde
  • Science and technology : positivism and critique / Hans Radder
  • Engineering science / Louis L. Bucciarelli
  • Technological knowledge / Anthonie W.M. Meijers and Marc J. de Vries
  • Interplay between science and technology / Bart Gremmen
  • Instruments in science and technology / Mieke Boon
  • Social construction of science / Harry Collins
  • Social construction of technology / Wiebe E. Bijker
  • Theory change and instrumentation / Joseph C. Pitt
  • Biology and technology / Keekok Lee
  • Nuclear technologies / William J. Nuttall
  • Engineering design / Peter Kroes
  • Cybernetics / Andrew Pickering
  • Chemistry and technology / Helge S. Kragh
  • Philosophy and technology / Val Dusek
  • Semiotics of technology / Robert E. Innis
  • Critical theory of technology / Andrew Feenberg
  • Cyborgs / Evan Selinger
  • Simulation / Evan Selinger
  • Technology as "applied science" / Robert C. Scharff
  • Technological artifacts / Peter-Paul Verbeek and Pieter E. Vermaas
  • Technical practice / Bart Gremmen
  • Technological pragmatism / Larry Hickman
  • Hermeneutics and technologies / Don Ihde
  • Analytic philosophy of technology / Maarten Franssen
  • Technological rationality / Lorenzo C. Simpson
  • Phenomenology and technology / Iain Thomson
  • Expertise / Evan Selinger
  • Imaging technologies / Don Ihde
  • Critique of the precautionary principle and the possibility for an "enlightened doomsaying" / Jean-Pierre Dupuy
  • Technology and metaphysics / Jean-Pierre Dupuy
  • Large technical systems / Erik van der Vleuten
  • Sociotechnical systems / Maarten Franssen and Peter Kroes
  • Information technology / Luciano Floridi
  • Technology and environment / Mary Tiles
  • Precautionary principle / Andy Stirling
  • Boundary-work, pluralism and the environment / Jozef Keulartz
  • Global warming / John Houghton
  • Reinvention of CO[subscript 2] as refrigerant for both heating and cooling / Jan Hurlen
  • Environmental science and technology / Mary Tiles
  • Agriculture and technology / John R. Porter and Jesper Rasmussen
  • Built environment / Christian Illies
  • Technology and politics / Evan Selinger
  • Idea of progress / Daniel Sarewitz
  • Technology and power / Daniel Sarewitz
  • Technology and culture / Lucien Scubla
  • Technology management / Richard Li-Hua
  • Technology strategy / Richard Li-Hua
  • Technology and globalization / David M. Kaplan
  • Technology transfer / Evan Selinger
  • Technology and capitalism / David M. Kaplan
  • Politics of gender and technology / Elisabeth K. Kelan
  • European politics, economy and technology / Erik Jones
  • Asian politics, economy and technology / Keekok Lee
  • US politics, economy and technology / David M. Hart
  • Energy, technology and geopolitics / John R. Fanchi
  • Technology and ethics : overview / Carl Mitcham and Katinka Waelbers
  • Agriculture ethics / David M. Kaplan
  • Architecture ethics / Warwick A. Fox
  • Biomedical engineering ethics / Philip Brey
  • Bioethics / Paul B. Thomson
  • Biotechnology : plants and animals / Bart Gremmen
  • Computer ethics / Philip Brey
  • Consumerism / Edward J. Woodhouse
  • Development ethics / Thomas Kesselring
  • Energy ethics / Kirsten Halsnaes
  • Engineering ethics / Christelle Didier
  • Environmental ethics / Thomas Sobirk Petersen
  • Food ethics / David M. Kaplan
  • Future generations / Jesper Ryberg
  • Genethics / Nils Holtug
  • Technology and the law / Richard Susskind
  • Media ethics / Deni Elliott
  • Medical ethics / Soren Holm
  • Nanoethics / John Weckert
  • Nuclear ethics / Koos van der Bruggen
  • Religion and technology / Carl Mitcham
  • Technology and personal moral responsibility / Jesper Ryberg
  • Value-sensitive design / Jeroen van der Hoven and Noemi Manders-Huits
  • Technology, prosperity and risk / Sven Ove Hansson
  • World risk society / Ulrich Beck
  • Risk analysis / Sven Ove Hansson
  • Prosperity and the future of technology / William Sims Bainbridge
  • Converging technologies / William Sims Bainbridge
  • Nanotechnology / Alfred Nordmann
  • Energy forecast technologies / John R. Fanchi
  • Biotechnology / Jennifer Kuzma
  • Transportation / Jonathan L. Gifford
  • Global challenges / Jennifer Kuzma
  • Chemicals / Bruce E. Johansen
  • Future of humanity / Nick Bostrom.