Source Acknowledgments ......................................... ix
Introduction to the Second Edition ........................... xiii
Part I The Historical Background ............................... 1
Introduction ................................................. 3
1 On Dialectic and "Technē" .................................... 9
Plato
2 On "Technē" and "Epistēmē" .................................. 19
Aristotle
3 The Greek Concepts of "Nature" and "Technique" .............. 25
Wolfgang Schadewaldt
4 On the Idols, the Scientific Study of Nature, and the
Reformation of Education .................................... 33
Francis Bacon
5 Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of
View ........................................................ 47
Immanuel Kant
6 The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy ........ 54
Auguste Comte
7 On the Sciences and Arts .................................... 68
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8 Capitalism and the Modern Labor Process ..................... 74
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Part II Philosophy, Modern Science, and Technology ............ 89
Positivist and Postpositivist Philosophies of Science .......... 91
9 The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle .. 101
Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath
10 Paradigms and Anomalies in Science ......................... 111
Thomas Kuhn
11 Experimentation and Scientific Realism ..................... 121
Ian Hacking
12 Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism: A Philosophy of
Science .................................................... 131
Patrick A. Heelan and Jay Schulkin
13 What are Cultural Studies of Science? ...................... 147
Joseph Rouse
14 Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women .... 161
Nancy Tuana
15 Is Science Multicultural? .................................. 171
Sandra Harding
16 On Knowledge and the Diversity of Cultures: Comment on
Harding .................................................... 183
Shigehisa Kuriyama
The Task of a Philosophy of Technology ..................... 187
17 Philosophical Inputs and Outputs of Technology ............. 191
Mario Bunge
18 Analytic Philosophy of Technology .......................... 201
Maarten Franssen
19 On the Aims of a Philosophy of Technology .................. 205
Jacques Ellul
20 Toward a Philosophy of Technology .......................... 210
Hans Jonas
21 The Technology Question in Feminism: A View from Feminist
Technology Studies ......................................... 224
Wendy Faulkner
Part III Defining Technology ................................. 239
Introduction ............................................... 241
22 Conflicting Visions of Technology .......................... 249
Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek
23 The Mangle of Practice ..................................... 260
Andrew Pickering
24 The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts ............. 266
Trevor J. Pinch and Wiehe E. Bijker
25 Actor-Network Theory (ANT) ................................. 278
Bruno Latour
26 Actor-Network Theory: Critical Considerations .............. 289
Sergio Sismondo
Part IV Heidegger on Technology .............................. 297
Introduction ............................................... 299
27 The Question Concerning Technology ......................... 305
Martin Heidegger
28 On Philosophy's "Ending" in Technoscience: Heidegger
vs. Comte .................................................. 318
Robert C. Scharff
29 Focal Things and Practices ................................. 329
Albert Borgmann
30 Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology ......... 350
Hubert L. Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa
31 Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads: Critique of
Heidegger and Borgmann ..................................... 362
Andrew Feenberg
Part V Technology and Human Ends .............................. 375
Human Beings as "Makers" or "Tool-Users"? .................. 377
32 Tool Users vs. Homo Sapiens and the Megamachine ............ 381
Lewis Mumford
33 The "Vita Activa" and the Modern Age ....................... 389
Hannah Arendt
34 Putting Pragmatism (especially Dewey's) to Work ............ 406
Larry Hickman
35 Buddhist Economics ......................................... 421
E.F. Schumacher
Is Technology Autonomous? .................................. 426
36 The "Autonomy" of the Technological Phenomenon ............. 430
Jacques Ellul
37 Do Machines Make History? .................................. 442
Robert L. Heilbroner
38 The New Forms of Control ................................... 449
Herbert Marcuse
39 Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live Technological
Determinism ................................................ 456
Sally Wyatt
Technology, Ecology, and the Conquest of Nature ............ 467
40 Mining the Earth's Womb .................................... 471
Carolyn Merchant
41 The Deep Ecology Movement .................................. 482
Bill Devall
42 Deeper than Deep Ecology.The Eco-Feminist Connection ....... 491
Ariel Salleh
43 In Defense of Posthuman Dignity ............................ 495
Nick Bostrom
Part VI Technology as Social Practice ......................... 503
Technology and the Lifeworld ............................... 505
44 Cultural Climates and Technological Advance in the Middle
Ages ....................................................... 511
Lynn White, Jr.
45 Three Ways of Being-With Technology ........................ 523
Carl Mitcham
46 A Phenomenology of Technics ................................ 539
Don Ihide
47 Postphenomenology of Technology ............................ 561
Peter-Paul Verbeek
48 Technoscience Studies after Heidegger? Not Yet ............. 573
Robert C. Scharff
Technology and Cyberspace .................................. 582
49 Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds ..................... 588
Daniel C. Dennett
50 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would
Require Making It More Heideggerian ........................ 597
Hubert L. Dreyfus
51 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist
Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century ..................... 610
Donna Haraway
52 A Moratorium on Cyborgs: Computation, Cognition, and
Commerce ................................................... 631
Evan Selinger and Timothy Engström
53 Anonymity versus Commitment: The Dangers of Education on
the Internet ............................................... 641
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Technology, Knowledge, and Power ........................... 648
54 Panopticism ................................................ 654
Michel Foucault
55 Do Artifacts Have Politics? ................................ 668
Langdon Winner
56 The Social Impact of Technological Change .................. 680
Emmanuel G. Mesthene
57 Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals, with the
Author's 2000 Retrospective ................................ 693
John McDermott
58 Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power, and
Freedom .................................................... 706
Andrew Feenberg
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