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"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volu...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies. They reveal the often-neglected importance of technology for virtually every subfield of philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and political theory. The Handbook also gives readers a new sense of what philosophy looks like when fully engaged with the disciplines and domains of knowledge that continue to transform the material and practical features and affordances of our world, including engineering, arts and design, computing, and the physical and social sciences. The chapters reveal enduring conceptual themes concerning technology's role in the shaping of human knowledge, identity, power, values, and freedom, while bringing a philosophical lens to the profound transformations of our existence brought by innovations ranging from biotechnology and nuclear engineering to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics. This new collection challenges the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and questions to be brought to bear upon humanity's complex and evolving relationship to technology"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 675 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780190851187 019085118X |
| Index Number: | T14 |
| CLC: | T-02 |
| Call Number: | T-02/O984 |
| Contents: |
Introducing the philosophy of technology / Histories and methodologies in the philosophy of technology -- What is living and what is dead in classic European philosophy of technology? / The empirical turn / Philosophy of technology and the continental and analytic traditions / Whence and w(h)ither technology ethics / Technology and epistemology-- Styles of objectivity in scientific instrumentation / Engineering knowledge / The epistemic role of technical functions / Revisiting smartness in the smart city / Technology, power, and politics -- Philosophy of technology as politics / Postcolonialism and technologies of identification / Rawls, information technology, and the sociotechnical bases of self-respect / Freedom in an age of algocracy / (Bio)technology, identity, and the other / Technology, metaphysics, and language -- The technological uncanny as a permanent dimension of selfhood / Technology and the ontology of the virtual / Using philosophy of language in philosophy of technology / What is it like to be a bot? / Technological multistability and the trouble with the things themselves / Technology, aesthetics, and design -- Understanding engineering design and its social, political, and moral dimensions / Virtual reality media and aesthetics / Evaluation, validation, and management in design / Urban aesthetics and technology / Technology, health and the environment -- Science fiction futures and (re)visions of the Anthropo |