Living in a Technological Culture

Human Tools and Human Values
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-07100-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Philosophical Issues in Science

Technology is no longer confined to the laboratory but has become an established part of our daily lives. Its sophistication offers us power beyond our human capacity which can either dazzle or threaten; it depends who is in control.
Living in a Technological Culture challenges traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between `man-and-machine'. It argues that contemporary science does not shape technology but is shaped by it. Neither discipline exists in a moral vacuum, both are determined by politics rather than scientific inquiry.
By questioning our existing uses of technology, this book opens up wider debate on the shape of things to come and whether we should be trying to change them now. As an introduction to the philosophy of technology this will be valuable to students, but will be equally engaging for the general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oberdiek, Hans

Tiles, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Conflicting Visions of Technology; Chapter 2 Facts, Values and Efficiency; Chapter 3 Science, Scientific Method and the Authority of Experts; Chapter 4 From Applied Science to Technoscience; Chapter 5 Technology, Culture and Politics; Chapter 6 Plant Breeding and the Politics of Hunger; Chapter 7 Who’s Responsible for this Mess?;

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Tiles is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii; she is the author of various books including Bachelard: Science and Objectivity (1984); An Introduction to Historical Epistemology with Jim Tiles (1993) and Mathematics and the Image of Reason (1991), which is published by Routledge. Hans Oberdiek is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.