Technology and Contemporary Life

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. A Symposium on Albert Borgmann’s Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

   1. A Discussion

      • Stanley R. Carpenter

      Pages 1-12

   2. Reply

      • Albert Borgmann

      Pages 29-43

3. A Symposium on Albert Borgmann’s Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

   1. A Critical Appreciation

      • Manfred Stanley

      Pages 13-28

4. The Co-Relational Community and Technological Culture

   1. The Co-relational Community and Technological Culture

      • Alexander Barzel

      Pages 45-62

5. The Labor-Saving Device: Evidence of Responsibility?

   1. The Labor-Saving Device: Evidence of Responsibility?

      • Edmund F. Byrne

      Pages 63-85

6. Symposium on Appropriate Technology

   1. A Conversation concerning Technology: The “Appropriate” Technology Movement

      • Stanley R. Carpenter

      Pages 87-105

   2. Appropriate Technology and Inappropriate Politics

      • Thomas Simon

      Pages 107-128

7. Reflections on the Autonomy of Technology: Biotechnology, Bioethics, and Beyond

   1. Reflections on the Autonomy of Technology: Biotechnology, Bioethics, and Beyond

      • Daniel Cérézuelle

      Pages 129-144

8. Lebenstechnik Und Essen: Toward a Technological Ethics after Heidegger

   1. Lebenstechnik Und Essen: Toward a Technological Ethics after Heidegger

      • Daniel O. Dahlstrom

      Pages 145-159

9. The Phenomenology of the Quotidian Artifact

   1. The Phenomenology of The Quotidian Artifact

      • Larry Hickman

      Pages 161-176

10. Symposium on Information Technologies

    1. Impact of Personal Information Technologies on American Education, Interpersonal Relations, and Business, 1985–2010

       • Paul Levinson

       Pages 177-191

    2. Information Technology, Citizens’ Rights, and Personnel Administration

       • S. Muthuchidambaram

       Pages 193-215

11. History, Nature, and Technology

    1. History, Nature, and Technology

       • Joseph Margolis

       Pages 217-236

12. Technological Analogies and their Logical Nature

    1. Technological Analogies and their Logical Nature

       • Andries Sarlemijn, Peter A. Kroes

       Pages 237-255

13. Public and Occupational Risk: The Double Standard

    1. Public and Occupational Risk: The Double Standard

       • Kristin Shrader-Frechette

       Pages 257-277

14. Variety in Technology, Unity in Responsibility?

    1. Variety in Technology, Unity in Responsibility?

       • Walther Ch. Zimmerli

       Pages 279-293

15. Work and Technology: A Bibliographical Essay

    1. Work and Technology: A Bibliographical Essay

       • Edmund F. Byrne

       Pages 295-313

16. Back Matter

    Pages 314-320

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Nearly everyone agrees that life has changed in our technological society, whether the contrast is with earlier stages in Western culture or with non-Western cultures. "Modernization" is just one of various terms that have been applied to the process by which we have arrived at the peculiar lifestyle typical of our age; whatever the term for the process, almost all analysts agree in finding technology to be one of its key ingredients. This is the judgment of critics of all sorts - anthropologists, historians, literary figures, sociologists, theologians. Volume 4 in the Philosophy and Technology series brings the perspectives of philosophers to bear on the issue of characterizing contemporary life, mainly in high-technology societies. Some of the philosophers look at the issue directly. Others focus on work life - or on the living arrangements that surround or condition or offer refuge from work life in technological society. Still others reflect on particular technologies, especially biotechnology and computer technology, that are increasingly affecting both work and family life. There is also a paper on the nature of thinking in technologi­ cal praxis, along with two papers on whether it is appropriate to export this sort of thinking to Third World countries, and another paper on the issue of responsibility in technology - which would have fit better in volume 3 of the series, entitled Technology and Responsibility (1987). Finally, volume 4 closes with a broad-ranging bibliography that takes work and technology as its focus.

• Martin Heidegger
• Natur
• Technologie
• ethics
• history

• University of Delaware, USA

  Paul T. Durbin

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