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Philosophy of Technology in Spanish Speaking Countries

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Carl Mitcham

    1. The Pennsylvania State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Technology (PHTE, volume 10)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. From Chile

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Technology and Politics: Toward Artificial History?

      • Marcos I. García de la Huerta
      Pages 3-14

    3. Globalization: Homogenization with an Increasing Technological Gap

      • Marcos I. García de la Huerta
      Pages 15-38

    4. Thinking Machines and the Crisis of Modern Reason

      • J. Eduardo Sabrovsky
      Pages 39-60

    5. Ethics, Science, and Technology

      • S. Carlos Verdugo
      Pages 61-67

  3. From Costa Rica

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Contributions to the Philosophy of Technology in Costa Rica

      • Luis A. Camacho Naranjo
      Pages 71-80

    3. Science, Technology, and Development: Some Models of Their Relationship

      • Luis A. Camacho Naranjo
      Pages 81-87

    4. Ethics, Pernicious Technology, and the “Technological Argument”

      • Edgar Roy Briceño Ramírez
      Pages 89-98

  4. From Mexico

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Technology and Basic Needs: Proposal for a Debate on Fundamental Criteria

      • Enrique Dussel
      Pages 101-109

    3. On Technique

      • José Gaos
      Pages 111-120

    4. Technological Objects and Their Epistemological Base

      • Hugo Padilla
      Pages 121-131

    5. Satellites and Our Morality

      • Leopoldo Zea
      Pages 133-141

  5. From Spain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Technology and Human Nature

      • María Luisa GarcíA-Merita
      Pages 145-151

    3. Philosophy, Technology, and Society

      • Manuel Medina
      Pages 153-166

    4. Does Technology “Construct” Scientific Reality?

      • Ramón Queraltó Moreno
      Pages 167-172

    5. The Design and Evaluation of Technologies: Some Conceptual Issues

      • Miguel Angel Quintanilla
      Pages 173-195
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About this book

This volume grew out of the experience of the First Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of Technology, October 1988, organized by the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez. The Spanish-language proceedings of that conference have been published in Carl Mitcham and Margarita M. Peiia Borrero, with Elena Lugo and James Ward, eds., El nuevo mundo de la filosofta y la tecnolog(a (University Park, PA: STS Press, 1990). This volume contains thirty-two papers, twenty-two summaries, an introduction and biographical notes, to provide a full record of that seminal gathering. Discussions with Paul T. Durbin and others - including many who participated in the Second Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of Technology, University of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez, March 199- raised the prospect of an English-language proceedings in the Philosophy and Technology series. But after due consideration it was agreed that a more general volume was needed to introduce English-speaking readers to a growing body of literature on the philosophy of technology in the Spanish-speaking world. As such, the present volume includes Spanish as well as Latin American authors, historical and contemporary figures, some who did and many who did not participate in the first and second inter-American congresses.

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  • The Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Carl Mitcham

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