Overview
- Features a range of approaches to topics within the philosophy of technology in Portugal, Brazil, and Africa
- Explores themes such as technological dependence and national strategies of development
- Details perspectives that are not usually available in English-language collections
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 43)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modern Technology and Aporias of Progress
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Technology, Risk and Values
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Keywords
- Philosophy technology Portugal
- Philosophy technology Brazil
- Philosophy technology Angola
- Epistemology Technology
- Neoliberal technoscience
- Post-human Technology
- Cyberspace Philosophy
- Technology and national strategies of development
- Contemporary philosophical reflection on technology
- Philosophical thought on technology
- Portuguese essays on techology
- Angolan essays on techology
- Brazilian essays on techology
- Sexuality Technology
- Commercially-oriented technoscience
About this book
The essays are thematically diverse. Among the topics covered are technogenic knowledge, visions of technology, risks and uncertainties, mediatization, digitalization, and datafication, engineering practice and ethics, alternative technoscientific strategies, ontotechnologies of the body, virtual and archive. The contributions also explore other themes that are more closely related to the semi-peripheral world, such as technological dependence and the incorporation of Western technology into the social structure of ancestral communities.
This book appeals to students and researchers and provides a voice to authors whose work are not usually available in English-language publications. It serves as an ideal guide for all those who seek rigorous and geographically widespread knowledge regarding thinking on technology in several Portuguese-speaking countries.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Helena Mateus Jerónimo (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) is a full time tenured assistant professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade de Lisboa [ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon], Portugal, and researcher at Advance/CSG. Her research interests and publications are in science and technology, sustainability, risk and uncertainty, and in human resource management and organisational behaviour. Helena served on the Executive Board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) from 2013 to 2017. She is currently a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST). Her books include Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century (Springer, 2013, co-edited), Razão, Tempo e Tecnologia: Estudos em Homenagem a Hermínio Martins ([Reason, Time and Technology: Studies in Honour of Hermínio Martins], Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006, co-edited) andQueimar a Incerteza: Poder e Ambiente no Conflito da Co-Incineração de Resíduos Industriais Perigosos ([Burying Uncertainty: Power and Environment in the Conflict of Co-Incineration of Hazardous Industrial Waste], Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Portuguese Philosophy of Technology
Book Subtitle: Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community
Editors: Helena Mateus Jerónimo
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14630-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14629-9Published: 24 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14632-9Published: 24 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14630-5Published: 23 November 2022
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 336
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies, History of Technology