Hans Oberdiek, Mary Tiles

Living in a Technological Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Human Tools and Human Values

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Holding the promise of both emancipation and oppression, technology at once terrifies and disturbs the social order. Its dazzles, seduces, yet it also unsettles and raises the specter of the loss of human values and our replacement by machines and silicon. In "Living with Technology," Hans Oberdiek and Mary Tiles explore the cultural and philosophical tensions shrouding technology and its place in society. Examing the relationship between instrumental reason and technology, fact and value, efficient and responsibility, Oberdiek and Tiles employ an accessibile and philosophical methodology to assess the embeddness of technology in daily life. Investigating such aspects of technology as its transfer to third world nations and the genetic development of seeds, Oberdiek and Tiles give the strictly practical a compellingly philosophical look--analyzing why, in fact, the West often uses technology to do rather stupid things in rather clever ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134911158
• Artikelnr.: 38485180

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?