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Philosophy of Technology

The Technological Condition: An Anthology

Edited by: Robert Scharff (University of New Hampshire) and VAL DUSEK (University of New Hampshire)

Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies

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This anthology brings together, for the first time, a collection of both seminal historical and contemporary essays on the nature of technology and its relation to humanity.

• Contains extensive selections from the great classical philosophers on technology.
• Integrates the latest developments in the philosophy of science with philosophy of technology and clarifies the relation between the two.
• Discusses technology in relation to feminism, deep ecology, multiculturalism, social constructivism, and hermeneutics.

TopTable of Contents

General Introduction: Philosophy and the Technological Condition.
Part I: The Historical Background.
Part II: Philosophy, Modern Science, and Technology.
Part III: Defining Technology.
Part IV: Heidegger on Technology.
Part V: Technology and Human Ends.
Part VI: Technology as Social Practice.
Index.

TopAbout the Author

Robert C. Scharff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He is author of Comte After Positivism (1995) and since 1995 has been the editor of Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World).

Val Dusek is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He is author of Holistic Inspirations of Physics (1999).