Technology and the good life?
edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong
Technology and the good life?
Author
edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David StrongPublisher
University of Chicago PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Technology and the good life? / edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David StrongPublication Details
شیکاگو : University of Chicago Press، 2000مPhysical Description
xii, 392 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Technology PhilosophyTechnology Social aspects
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: I PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY TODAY 17 -- 1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology 19 -- David Strong and Eric Higgs -- 2. Philosophy of Technology. Retrospective and -- Prospective Views 38 -- Paul T Durbin -- II EVALUATING FOCAL THINGS 51 -- 3. Focal Things and Focal Practices 55 -- Lawrence Haworth -- 4. Technology and Nostalgia 70 -- Gordon G. BrittanJr. -- 5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform -- of Technology 89 -- Larry Hickman -- 6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemisse Betrachtungen: -- On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place 106 -- Andrew Light -- 7. On Character and Technology 126 -- Carl Mitcham -- III THEORY IN THE SERVICE OF PRACTICE 149 -- 8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things 153 -- Phillip R. Fandozzi -- 9. Farming as Focal Practice 166 -- Paul B. Thompson -- 10. Design and the Reform of Technology: -- Venturing Out into the Open 182 -- Jesse S. Tatum -- 11. Nature by Design 195 -- Eric Higgs -- IV EXTENSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES 213 -- 12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 219 -- Diane P Michelfelder -- 13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with -- Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace 234 -- Douglas Kellner -- 14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity 256 -- Mora Campbell -- 15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure -- and the Entrenchment of the Device 271 -- Thomas Michael Power -- 16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of -- Technology at the Crossroads 294 -- Andrew Feenberg -- 17. Philosophy in the Service of Things 316 -- David Strong -- V POSTSCRIPT 339 -- 18. Reply to My Critics 341 -- Albert Borgmann -- Afterword 371 -- Index 375