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Technology and Responsibility

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Paul T. Durbin

    1. University of Delaware, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Technology (PHTE, volume 3)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Technology and Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Responsibility and Technology: The Expanding Relationship

      • Carl Mitcham
      Pages 3-39

    3. Philosophical Anthropology and the Problem of Responsibility in Technology

      • T. Maarten, T. Coolen
      Pages 41-65

  3. Responsibility or Autonomous Technology?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Technoscience: Nihilistic Power Versus a New Ethical Consciousness

      • Gilbert Hottois
      Pages 69-84

    3. Phenomenology and the Autonomy of Technology

      • John E. Jalbert
      Pages 85-98

    4. The Autonomy of Technology

      • Joseph C. Pitt
      Pages 99-114

    5. Technique and Responsibility: Think Globally, Act Locally, According to Jacques Ellul

      • Willem H. Vanderburg
      Pages 115-132

  4. Responsibility in Medicine, Genetics, and Human Reproduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Increasing Responsibility as Technological Destiny? Human Reproductive Technology and the Problem of Meta-Responsibility

      • Kurt Bayertz
      Pages 135-150

    3. Commercializing Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Issues

      • Anne Donchin
      Pages 151-172

    4. Incontinence and Biomedicine: Examples from Puyallup Indian Medical Ethnohistory

      • George M. Guilmet, David L. Whited
      Pages 173-201

    5. Homo Generator: The Challenge of Gene Technology

      • Wolfgang Schirmacher
      Pages 203-225

  5. Religious Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. The Modern Babylon Culture

      • Egbert Schuurman
      Pages 229-242

    3. Religion, Technology, and Human Autonomy

      • Anthony J. Wesson, Ronald A. Brown
      Pages 243-257

  6. Technical Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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    2. Societal Role of Dutch Fresh-Water Ecologists in Environmental Policies

      • Jacqueline Cramer
      Pages 261-277

    3. Risk Assessment as Social Research

      • John A. Crane
      Pages 279-308
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About this book

Since it may seem strange for a new series to begin with volume 3, a word of explanation is in order. The series, Philosophy and Technology, inaugurated in this form with this volume, is the official publication of the Society for Philosophy & Technology. Approximately one volume each year is tobe published, alternating between proceedings volumes - taken from contributions to biennial international conferences of the Society - and miscellaneous volumes, with roughly the character of a professional society journal. The forerunners of the series in its present form were two proceedings volumes: Philosophy and Technology (1983), edited by Paul T. Durbin and Friedrich Rapp, and Philosophy and Technology //: Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice (1986), edited by Carl Mitcham and Alois Huning - both published (as volumes 80 and 90, respectively) in the series, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. The Society for Philosophy & Technology, now more than ten years old, is devoted to the promotion of philosophical schalarship that deals in one way or another with technology and technological society. "Philosophical scholarship" is interpreted broadly as including contribu­ tions from any and all perspectives; the one requirement is that the schalarship be sound, and all contributions to the series are subject to rigorous blind refereeing. "Technology," the other half of the philos­ ophy-and-technology pairing, is also construed broadly.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Delaware, USA

    Paul T. Durbin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technology and Responsibility

  • Editors: Paul T. Durbin

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6940-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2416-8Published: 31 August 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-6940-8Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 393

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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