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Technological Transformation

Contextual and Conceptual Implications

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Editors:
  1. Edmund F. Byrne

    1. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA

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  2. Joseph C. Pitt

    1. Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Blacksburg, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Technology (PHTE, volume 5)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Intra-Cultural Transformation

    1. The Technological Self

      • Joseph Margolis
      Pages 1-15

    2. Cryptanalysis: Uncovering Objective Knowledge of Hidden Realities

      • Tyrone Lai
      Pages 17-32

    3. Research and Development from the Viewpoint of Social Philosophy

      • Paul T. Durbin
      Pages 33-45

    4. Impartiality and Interpretive Intervention in Technical Controversy

      • Philip T. Shepard
      Pages 47-65

    5. The Problem of Valuation in Risk-Cost-Benefit Assessment of Public Policies

      • J. A. Crane
      Pages 67-79

    6. Fusion and Fission, Governors and Elevators

      • Alfred Nordmann
      Pages 81-92

    7. The Good Old Days: Age-Specific Perceptions of Progress

      • James Klagge
      Pages 93-104

    8. Technology and the Crisis of Liberalism: Reflections on Michael J. Sandel’s Work

      • Albert Borgmann
      Pages 105-122

    9. A Theory of Normative Technology

      • Clifford Christians
      Pages 123-139

    10. Globalization and Community: In Search of Transnational Justice

      • Edmund F. Byrne
      Pages 141-161

  3. Cross-Cultural Tranformation

    1. What Technologies Transfer: The Contingent Nature of Cultural Responses

      • Stanley R. Carpenter
      Pages 163-177

    2. Transferred and Transformed Technology: The C.R.S. Thresher/Winnower

      • Bernard Denouden
      Pages 179-184

    3. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Technology Transfer to the Third World

      • Romualdas Sviedrys
      Pages 185-200

    4. Appropriate Technology in Technology Transfer: A View from the People’s Republic of China

      • Lan Xue
      Pages 201-225

    5. Diffusion of Technology vis-a-vis Transformation: Increasing Contradictions Between Technocratic Market Values and Social Democratic Values

      • S. Muthuchidambaram
      Pages 227-248

    6. Cultural Alienation through Technology Transfer?

      • Friedrich Rapp
      Pages 249-257

    7. Risk and Technology Transfer: Equal Protection Across National Borders

      • Kristin Shrader-Frechette
      Pages 259-275

    8. Technology Transfer to Poor Nations

      • Joseph Agassi
      Pages 277-283

    9. Development and the Environment

      • Mario Bunge
      Pages 285-304
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About this book

The philosophical study of technology has acquired only recently a voice in academic conversation. This situation is due, in part, to the fact that technology obviously impacts on "the real world," whereas the favored stereotype of philosophy allegedly does not. Furthermore, in some circles it was assumed that philosophy ought not impinge on the world. This bias continues today in the form of a general dismissal of the growing area now referred to as "applied philosophy". By contrast, the academic scrutiny of science has for the most part been accepted as legitimate for some 30 years, primarily because it has been conducted in a somewhat ethereal manner. This is, in part, because it was believed that, science being pure, one could think (even philosophically) about science without jeopardizing one's intellectual purity. Since World War II, however, practitioners of the metascientific arts have come to ac­ knowledge that science also shows signs of having touched down on numerous occasions in what can only be identified as the real world. No longer able to keep this banal truth a secret, purists have sought to defuse its import by stressing the difference between pure and applied science; and, lest science be tainted by contact with the world through its applications, they have devoted additional energy to separating applied science somehow from technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA

    Edmund F. Byrne

  • Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Blacksburg, USA

    Joseph C. Pitt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technological Transformation

  • Book Subtitle: Contextual and Conceptual Implications

  • Editors: Edmund F. Byrne, Joseph C. Pitt

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2597-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2826-5Due: 28 February 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2827-2Published: 28 February 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2597-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 316

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics, Economic Policy

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