Readings in the Philosophy of Technology

This second edition of Readings in the Philosophy of Technology examines the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. The aim of philosophy of technology is to understand, evaluate, and criticize the ways in which technologies reflect as well as change human life and the natural world. Compiled specifically with students and newcomers in mind, this book explores the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. Readers will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human nature, computers, science, food, and animals.

David M. Kaplan is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Texas.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Philosophical Perspectives
The Question Concerning Technology	p. 9
Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology	p. 25
The New Forms of Control	p. 34
John Dewey as a Philosopher of Technology	p. 43
Focal Things and Practices	p. 56
A Phenomenology of Technics	p. 76
Philosophy of Technology Meets Social Constructivism: A Shopper's Guide	p. 98
Women and the Assessment of Technology: To Think, to Be; to Unthink, to Free	p. 112
Design Methodology and the Nature of Technical Artifacts	p. 127
Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Freedom	p. 139
A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth	p. 156
Technology and Ethics
Technology and Responsibility	p. 173
Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights	p. 185
Technological Ethics in a Different Voice	p. 198
NEST-ethics: Patterns of Moral Argumentation About New and Emerging Science and Technology	p. 208
Moralizing Technology: On the Morality of Technological Artifacts and Their Design	p. 226
Technology and Politics
Do Artifacts Have Politics?	p. 251
Panopticism	p. 264
Strong Democracy and Technology	p. 278
Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society	p. 293
The Constitution in Cyberspace: Law and Liberty Beyond the Electronic Frontier	p. 309
Technology Transfer and Globalization	p. 321
Technology and Human Nature
The Transhumanist FAQ	p. 345
Twenty-First Century Bodies	p. 361
Why Computers May Never Think Like People	p. 375
Interactional Expertise and Embodiment	p. 391
Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings	p. 417
What's Wrong with Enhancement Technology?	p. 431
Technology and Nature
The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature	p. 443
Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature: A Pragmatic Perspective	p. 452
The Brave New World of Animal Biotechnology	p. 468
Ethics and Genetically Modified Food	p. 484
What's Wrong with Functional Foods?	p. 498
Technology and Science
When Is an Image Not an Image?	p. 511
Scientific Visualism	p. 517
Laboratories	p. 534
Science Policy and Moral Purity: The Case of Animal Biotechnology	p. 552
Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science	p. 570
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