Table of Contents
List of Figures xi
Acknowledgments xii
Source Acknowledgments xiii
General Introduction 1
Craig Hanks
Section One Theoretical Reflections on Technology 7
Part I Introductory Considerations of Technology 9
1 Toward a Philosophy of Technology 11Hans Jonas
2 Four Philosophies of Technology 26Alan R. Drengson
3 The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values 38William W. Lowrance
4 A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans 49Bruno Latour
5 Technology and Ethics 60Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Part II Considering the Autonomy of Technology 65
6 The Autonomy of Technology 67Jacques Ellul
7 Artifice and Order 76Langdon Winner
8 The Autonomy of Technology 87Joseph Pitt
Part III Existential and Phenomenological Considerations 97
9 The Question Concerning Technology 99Martin Heidegger
10 Man the Technician 114José Ortega y Gasset
11 Focal Things and Practices 122Albert Borgmann
12 A Phenomenology of Technics 134Don Ihde
Part IV Critical Theory 157
13 The New Forms of Control 159Herbert Marcuse
14 Technical Progress and the Social Life-World 169Jürgen Habermas
15 The Critical Theory of Technology 176Andrew Feenberg
Part V Pragmatic Considerations 197
16 Science and Society 199John Dewey
17 Technology and Community Life 206Larry Hickman
Part VI Feminist Considerations 223
18 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century 225Donna Haraway
19 Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 247Diane P. Michelfelder
Section Two Applied Reflections on Technology and Value 259
Part VII Technology and Value in Everyday Life 261
Introduction 263
20 The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary 265John McDermott
21 Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving? 272Judy Wajcman
22 Some Meanings of Automobiles 289Douglas Browning
Part VIII Values and BioTechnologies 295
Introduction 297
23 How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong 299Daniel Callahan
24 Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral? 304Laura M. Purdy
25 Preventing a Brave New World 311Leon Kass
26 Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond 323Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis
27 Food for Thought 335Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown
28 Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops 347Paul B. Thompson
Part IX Urban Values 357
Introduction 359
29 The Highway and the City 361Lewis Mumford
30 Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical Choices 369Jessica Woolliams
31 The Local History of Space 373Steven Moore
32 Community 385Joseph Grange
33 Urban Ecological Citizenship 397Andrew Light
Part X Environmental Values 413
Introduction 415
34 Why Mow? 417Michael Pollan
35 Technology 423Lori Gruen
36 Environment, Technology, and Ethics 431Rajni Kothari
37 The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic 438J. Baird Callicott
38 Deep Ecology 454Bill Devall and George Sessions
39 Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique 460Ramachandra Guha
40 Just Garbage 468Peter S. Wenz
Part XI Immediate Challenges: Information Technologies, Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values 477
Introduction 479
41 Philosophy of Information Technology 481Carl Mitcham
42 Into the Electronic Millennium 491Sven Birkerts
43 Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer 500Wendell Berry
44 In the Age of the Smart Machine 504Shoshana Zuboff
45 The Social Life of Information 510John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
46 The Quest for Universal Usability 522Ben Shneiderman
Bibliography 531