Thinking through Science and Technology

Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World
Herausgeber: Miller, Glen; Zhu, Qin; Jeronimo, Helena Mateus

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Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging collection of original essays explores how individual and societal beliefs, values, and actions are transformed by science, technology, and engineering. Practical and theoretical insights from a global cohort of philosophers, policymakers, STS scholars, and engineers illuminate the perils and promise of technoscientific change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 582
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 934g
• ISBN-13: 9781538176511
• ISBN-10: 1538176513
• Artikelnr.: 71774581

Autorenporträt

Glen Miller is instructional associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has co-edited Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde (with Ashley Shew). Helena Mateus Jerónimo is assistant professor in the School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She has edited Portuguese Philosophy of Technology and is a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. Qin Zhu is associate professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. He is the lead author of the 5th edition of Ethics in Engineering.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Carl Mitcham
Preface
Glen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu
Chapter 1: Editors' Introduction
Glen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu
Part I: Philosophy and Technology
Ch 2: The Enigma of Technology
Andrew Feenberg
Chapter 3: Organization as Technique: A Blind Spot in the Philosophy of
Technology
Daniel Cérézuelle, translation by Christian Roy
Chapter 4: Technology as Process
Mark Coeckelbergh
Chapter 5: Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo Strauss
Carl Mitcham
Chapter 6: The Nuclear Menace and the Prophecy of Doom
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Chapter 7: The End of Technology and the Renewal of Reality
Albert Borgmann
Part II: Philosophy and Engineering
Chapter 8: An Engineer Considers Technological (Non)Neutrality: "But Where
Are the Values?
Byron Newberry
Chapter 9: How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral
Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics Education
Janna van Grunsven, Lavinia Marin, Taylor Stone, Sabine Roeser & Neelke
Doorn
Chapter 10: Parallel Steps toward Philosophy of Engineering in China and
West
Nan WANG and LI Bocong
Chapter 11: The Development of the Philosophy of Engineering in China:
Engaging the Scholarship of Carl Mitcham
Tong LI and Yongmou LIU
Part III: Religion, Science, and Technology
Chapter 12: Christianity, Power, and Technological Domination: A
Typological Approach to the Church
José Antonio Ullate
Chapter 13: Technology in Cosmic Terms: The World Council of Churches in
Amsterdam, 1948
Jennifer Karns Alexander
Chapter 14: Beyond Tools, Means, and Ends: Explorations into the
Post-Instrumental Erehwon
Jean Robert
Chapter 15: Understanding Bureaucratic Order: The Theological Paradigms of
Modern Hierarchy
Sajay Samuel
Chapter 16: What Religion, What Technology? A Wittgensteinian Approach
Andoni Alonso
Chapter 17: Bioethics, Philosophy, and Religious Wisdom: A Critical
Assessment of Leon Kass's Thought
Larry Arnhart
Part IV: Science and Technology Studies
Chapter 18: Ethics and the Search for Scientific Knowledge: The Whole Truth
and Nothing but the Truth?
Carlos Verdugo-Serna
Chapter 19: A Short History of Science, Truth, and Politics in the United
States, 1945-2021
Daniel Sarewitz
Chapter 20: Moral Narratives of Technological Change in the Early Green
Revolution
Suzanne Moon
Chapter 21: Momentum, Interrupted: Developing Habits of Discernment in
Engineering and Beyond
Jen Schneider
Chapter 22: Innovation Policy Driven by the Market: The Second Great
Disembeddedness
José Luís Garcia
Part V: Science and Technology Policy
Chapter 23: Irrational Energy Ethics
Adam Briggle
Chapter 24: Paradoxical Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women's Farming, Oil,
and Sustainable Development
Tricia Glazebrook and Gordon Akon-Yamga
Chapter 25: The Pandemic and Clamor for Vaccines: Ethical-Legal
Considerations for Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Sharing
Pamela Andanda
Chapter 26: An Effective History of the Basic-Applied Distinction in
"Science" Policy
J. Britt Holbrook
Chapter 27: Technological Risks, Institutional Wariness, and the Dynamics
of Trust
José A. López Cerezo
About the Contributors
Index
About the Editors