Nicholas Agar (Reader Victoria University of Wellington)

The Sceptical Optimist

Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Paradox of Progress, Nicholas Agar challenges the central claims of 'radical optimism': that technological progress will automatically make us happier and healthier. Using recent psychological studies about human well-being, he instead presents a more realistic approach to understand the positive and negative issues that progress brings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780198717058
• ISBN-10: 0198717059
• Artikelnr.: 42395564

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Agar is Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University. He has spent much of his academic career writing about ethical and philosophical issues that arise in connection with new technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Radical optimism and the technology bias
2: Is there a law of technological progress?
3: Does technological progress make us happier?
4: The new paradox of progress
5: We need technological progress experiments
6: Why technological progress won't end poverty
7: Choosing a tempo of technological progress
8: Afterword: Don't turn well-being technologies into Procrustean beds
References
Index