Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Technology and Contemporary Life

  • Book
  • © 1988

Overview

Editors:
  1. Paul T. Durbin

    1. University of Delaware, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Technology (PHTE, volume 4)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. A Symposium on Albert Borgmann’s Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

    1. A Discussion

      • Stanley R. Carpenter
      Pages 1-12

    2. Reply

      • Albert Borgmann
      Pages 29-43

  3. A Symposium on Albert Borgmann’s Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

    1. A Critical Appreciation

      • Manfred Stanley
      Pages 13-28

  4. The Co-Relational Community and Technological Culture

    1. The Co-relational Community and Technological Culture

      • Alexander Barzel
      Pages 45-62

  5. The Labor-Saving Device: Evidence of Responsibility?

    1. The Labor-Saving Device: Evidence of Responsibility?

      • Edmund F. Byrne
      Pages 63-85

  6. Symposium on Appropriate Technology

    1. A Conversation concerning Technology: The “Appropriate” Technology Movement

      • Stanley R. Carpenter
      Pages 87-105

    2. Appropriate Technology and Inappropriate Politics

      • Thomas Simon
      Pages 107-128

  7. Reflections on the Autonomy of Technology: Biotechnology, Bioethics, and Beyond

    1. Reflections on the Autonomy of Technology: Biotechnology, Bioethics, and Beyond

      • Daniel Cérézuelle
      Pages 129-144

  8. Lebenstechnik Und Essen: Toward a Technological Ethics after Heidegger

    1. Lebenstechnik Und Essen: Toward a Technological Ethics after Heidegger

      • Daniel O. Dahlstrom
      Pages 145-159

  9. The Phenomenology of the Quotidian Artifact

    1. The Phenomenology of The Quotidian Artifact

      • Larry Hickman
      Pages 161-176

  11. History, Nature, and Technology

    1. History, Nature, and Technology

      • Joseph Margolis
      Pages 217-236

  12. Technological Analogies and their Logical Nature

    1. Technological Analogies and their Logical Nature

      • Andries Sarlemijn, Peter A. Kroes
      Pages 237-255

  13. Public and Occupational Risk: The Double Standard

    1. Public and Occupational Risk: The Double Standard

      • Kristin Shrader-Frechette
      Pages 257-277

  14. Variety in Technology, Unity in Responsibility?

    1. Variety in Technology, Unity in Responsibility?

      • Walther Ch. Zimmerli
      Pages 279-293

  15. Work and Technology: A Bibliographical Essay

    1. Work and Technology: A Bibliographical Essay

      • Edmund F. Byrne
      Pages 295-313

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 314-320
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Nearly everyone agrees that life has changed in our technological society, whether the contrast is with earlier stages in Western culture or with non-Western cultures. "Modernization" is just one of various terms that have been applied to the process by which we have arrived at the peculiar lifestyle typical of our age; whatever the term for the process, almost all analysts agree in finding technology to be one of its key ingredients. This is the judgment of critics of all sorts - anthropologists, historians, literary figures, sociologists, theologians. Volume 4 in the Philosophy and Technology series brings the perspectives of philosophers to bear on the issue of characterizing contemporary life, mainly in high-technology societies. Some of the philosophers look at the issue directly. Others focus on work life - or on the living arrangements that surround or condition or offer refuge from work life in technological society. Still others reflect on particular technologies, especially biotechnology and computer technology, that are increasingly affecting both work and family life. There is also a paper on the nature of thinking in technologi­ cal praxis, along with two papers on whether it is appropriate to export this sort of thinking to Third World countries, and another paper on the issue of responsibility in technology - which would have fit better in volume 3 of the series, entitled Technology and Responsibility (1987). Finally, volume 4 closes with a broad-ranging bibliography that takes work and technology as its focus.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Delaware, USA

    Paul T. Durbin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technology and Contemporary Life

  • Editors: Paul T. Durbin

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3951-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2570-7Due: 31 December 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2571-4Published: 31 December 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3951-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 328

  • Topics: Philosophy of Technology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation