The Capability Approach, Technology and Design
Editors: Oosterlaken, Ilse, van den Hoven, Jeroen (Eds.)
Free Preview- First book to apply the capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen to technology and design
- Great policy relevance: technology is crucial to justice and development challenges in the 21st century
- Well-balanced mixture of theoretical reflections and practical applications
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- About this book
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The capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen places human capabilities at the centre stage of discussions about justice, equality, development and the quality of life. It rejects too much emphasis on mere preference satisfaction or resource provision and highlights the importance of human agency and freedom. This approach has already significantly influenced different fields of application, such as economics and development studies. Only recently have scholars started to explore its relevance for and application to the area of technology and design, which can be crucial factors in the expansion of human capabilities. How does technology influence human capabilities? What difference could a capability approach make to policies and practices of applying ICT in development processes in the South? How can we criticize and improve the design of technology from the perspective of the capability approach?
The authors of this volume explore the implications of the capability approach for technology & design and together create the first volume on this emerging topic.
- About the authors
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Ilse Oosterlaken is one of the pioneering authors in the area of the capability approach, technology and design. She is co-founder of a thematic group on this topic within the Human Development & Capability Association (HDCA) and organizer of the very successful 2011 HDCA conference, with 'innovation' as its theme. Recently she was co-guest-editor of a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology on the capability approach.
Jeroen van den Hoven is scientific director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology and full professor in moral philosophy at TU Delft, specializing in the ethics of information technology. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Ethics and Information Technology. He is project leader of an NWO-funded multidisciplinary research project ‘Technology for Development – A Capability Approach’, in which co-editor Ilse Oosterlaken also works as one of the researchers.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Capability Approach, Technology and Design: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Pages 3-26
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Human Capabilities and Technology
Pages 27-36
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Liberation from/Liberation within: Examining One Laptop per Child with Amartya Sen and Bruno Latour
Pages 39-55
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Evaluating Emerging ICTs: A Critical Capability Approach of Technology
Pages 57-76
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“How I Learned to Love the Robot”: Capabilities, Information Technologies, and Elderly Care
Pages 77-86
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Capability Approach, Technology and Design
- Editors
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- Ilse Oosterlaken
- Jeroen van den Hoven
- Series Title
- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
- Series Volume
- 5
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media BV.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-3879-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-3879-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3878-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9917-2
- Series ISSN
- 1879-7202
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 258
- Topics
