Technology and the good life? / edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.Description: xii, 392 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226333868 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226333876 (paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 21
LOC classification:
  • T14 .T386 2000
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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