Feedback Loops

Pragmatism about Science and Technology
Herausgeber: Garnar, Andrew Wells; Shew, Ashley

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the arrangement of science, technology, society, and education. Using the concept of "feedback loop", this book processes subjects dear to the work of Joseph C. Pitt: technology as humanity at work, pragmatism, Sicilian realism, pragmatist pedagogy, instrumentation in science, and more.

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Produktdetails

• Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781498597623
• ISBN-10: 1498597629
• Artikelnr.: 59964181

Autorenporträt

Andrew Wells Garnar earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Ashley Shew is assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew
1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance
Computing
Anne C. Fitzpatrick
2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of
Technology and the Law
Ronald Laymon
3 A Defense of Sicilian Realism
Andrew Wells Garnar
4 Quasi-fictional Idealization
Nicholas Rescher
5 Technological Knowledge in Disability Design
Ashley Shew
6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection
Ivan Guajardo
7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy
Thomas Staley
8 Moral values in technical artifacts
Peter Kroes
9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts - Reflections on
Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering Education
Brandiff R. Caron
10 Gravity and Technology
Allan Franklin
11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy
James H. Collier
Afterword
Joseph C. Pitt