Overview
- The first book to survey normativity in technological knowledge and innovation
- Provides analysis of emerging topics in scientific ethics and epistemology
- Includes analysis of norms relating to technological risks ?
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 9)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Normativity in Technological Knowledge and Action
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Normativity and Artefact Norms
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Normativity and Technological Risks
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Artifactual Norms
- Ethics Artifacts
- Ethics Risk
- Instrument Artifact Functions and Normativity
- Normativity and Artefact Norms
- Normativity and Technological Risks
- Normativity in
- Normativity in Technological Knowledge
- Norms and Engineering
- Technological Artefacts Norms
- Technological Risks Norms
- Technology Normativity
- The Venice Dams case
- The artefact as agent
About this book
This book is a distinctive fusion of philosophy and technology, delineating the normative landscape that informs today’s technologies and tomorrow’s inventions. The authors examine what we deem to be the internal norms that govern our ever-expanding technical universe. Recognizing that developments in technology and engineering literally create our human future, transforming existing knowledge into tomorrow’s tools and infrastructure, they chart the normative criteria we use to evaluate novel technological artifacts: how, for example, do we judge a ‘good’ from a ‘bad’ expert system or nuclear power plant? As well as these ‘functional’ norms, and the norms that guide technological knowledge and reasoning, the book examines commonly agreed benchmarks in safety and risk reduction, which play a pivotal role in engineering practice.
Informed by the core insight that, in technology and engineering, factual knowledge relating, for example, to the properties of materials or the load-bearing characteristics of differing construction designs is not enough, this analysis follows the often unseen foundations upon which technologies rest—the norms that guide the creative forces shaping the technical landscape to come. The book, a comprehensive survey of these emerging topics in the philosophy of technology, clarifies the role these norms (epistemological, functional, and risk-assessing) play in technological innovation, and the consequences they have for our understanding of technological knowledge.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Norms in Technology
Editors: Marc J. Vries, Sven Ove Hansson, Anthonie W.M. Meijers
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5243-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5242-9Published: 29 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9816-8Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5243-6Published: 30 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 244
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Epistemology, Ethics