Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Introduction ................................................. xiii
Part I: Philosophical Perspectives
1 Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology ......... 9
2 Hubert Dreyfus, Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to
Technology .................................................. 25
3 Herbert Marcuse, The New Forms of Control ................... 34
4 Larry Hickman, John Dewey as a Philosopher of Technology .... 43
5 Albert Borgmann, Focal Things and Practices ................. 56
6 Don Ihde, A Phenomenology of Technics ....................... 76
7 Philip Brey, Philosophy of Technology Meets Social
Constructivism: A Shopper's Guide ........................... 98
8 Corlann Gee Bush, Women and the Assessment of Technology:
To Think, to Be; to Unthink, to Free ....................... 112
9 Peter Kroes, Design Methodology and the Nature of
Technical Artifacts ........................................ 127
10 Andrew Feenberg, Democratic Rationalization: Technology,
Power, and Freedom ......................................... 139
11 Bruno Latour, A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans:
Following Daedalus's Labyrinth ............................. 156
Part II: Technology and Ethics
12 Hans Jonas, Technology and Responsibility .................. 173
13 Robert E. McGinn, Technology, Demography, and the
Anachronism of Traditional Rights .......................... 185
14 Diane Michelfelder, Technological Ethics in a Different
Voice ...................................................... 198
15 Tsjalling Swierstra and Arie Rip, NEST-ethics: Patterns
of Moral Argumentation About New and Emerging Science and
Technology ................................................. 208
16 Peter-Paul Verbeek, Moralizing Technology: On the
Morality of Technological Artifacts and Their Design ....... 226
Part III: Technology and Politics
17 Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics? ................ 251
18 Michel Foucault, Panopticism ............................... 264
19 Richard E. Sclove, Strong Democracy and Technology ......... 278
20 Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt, Bigger Monster, Weaker
Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society ..... 293
21 Laurence H. Tribe, The Constitution in Cyberspace: Law
and Liberty Beyond the Electronic Frontier ................. 309
22 Evan Selinger, Technology Transfer and Globalization ....... 321
Part IV: Technology and Human Nature
23 Nick Bostrom, The Transhumanist FAQ ........................ 345
24 Ray Kurzweil, Twenty-First Century Bodies .................. 361
25 Hubert Dreyfus and Stuart Dreyfus, Why Computers May
Never Think Like People .................................... 375
26 Evan Selinger, Hubert Dreyfus, and Harry Collins,
Interactional Expertise and Embodiment ..................... 391
27 Julian Savulescu, Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of
Enhancement of Human Beings ................................ 417
28 Carl Elliot, What's Wrong with Enhancement Technology? ..... 431
Part V: Technology and Nature
29 Erik Katz, The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature ........ 443
30 Andrew Light, Ecological Restoration and the Culture of
Nature: A Pragmatic Perspective ............................ 452
31 Strachan Donnelley, The Brave New World of Animal
Biotechnology .............................................. 468
32 Gary Comstock, Ethics and Genetically Modified Food ........ 484
33 David M. Kaplan, What's Wrong with Functional Foods? ....... 498
Part VI: Technology and Science
34 Joseph Pitt, When Is an Image Not an Image? ................ 511
35 Don Ihde, Scientific Visualism ............................. 517
36 Bruno Latour, Laboratories ................................. 534
37 Paul B. Thompson, Science Policy and Moral Purity: The
Case of Animal Biotechnology ............................... 552
38 Sheila Jasanoff, Technologies of Humility: Citizen
Participation in Governing Science ......................... 570
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