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| Prefatory Notes and Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Thinking about Technology | 1 | |
| Background and Standpoint | ||
| Collections and Conferences | ||
| Themes and Variations | ||
| 1 | Engineering Philosophy of Technology | 19 |
| Mechanical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Manufactures | ||
| Ernst Kapp and Technology as Organ Projection | ||
| Technology and Politics according to Peter Engelmeier and Others | ||
| Friedrich Dessauer and Technology as Encounter with the Kantian Thing-in-Itself | ||
| The Intellectual Attraction and Power of the Technical | ||
| 2 | Humanities Philosophy of Technology | 39 |
| Lewis Mumford: The Myth of the Machine | ||
| Jose Ortega y Gasset: Meditation on Technics | ||
| Martin Heidegger: The Question concerning Technology | ||
| Excursus on Ortega and Heidegger | ||
| Jacques Ellul: Technology as the Wager of the Century | ||
| 3 | From Engineering to Humanities Philosophy of Technology | 62 |
| The Two Philosophies in Tension: A Dialogue | ||
| Two Attempts at Reconciliation | ||
| The Question of Marxist Philosophy of Technology | ||
| A Brief for the Primacy of Humanities Philosophy of Technology | ||
| 4 | The Philosophical Questioning of Technology | 94 |
| Science and Ideas | ||
| Technology and Ideas | ||
| Conceptual Issues | ||
| Logic and Epistemological Issues | ||
| Ethical Issues | ||
| Issues of Political Philosophy | ||
| Religious Issues | ||
| Metaphysical Issues | ||
| Questioning the Questions | ||
| 5 | Philosophical Questions about Techne | 114 |
| Observations on the History of Technology | ||
| Techne and Technology | ||
| Philosophy of Technology versus Philosophia Technes | ||
| 6 | From Philosophy to Technology | 137 |
| Engineering Objections to Humanities Philosophy of Technology | ||
| Philosophical Objections to Humanities Philosophy of Technology | ||
| Two Usages of the Term "Technology" | ||
| The Extension of "Technology" | ||
| A Framework for Philosophical Analysis | ||
| 7 | Types of Technology as Object | 161 |
| The Spectrum of Artifacts | ||
| Types of Machines | ||
| The Machine (and Object) as Process | ||
| The Engineering Analysis of Machines | ||
| Physical, Chemical, and Biological Artifacts | ||
| Animal Artifacts, Social Artifacts, the Planet as Artifact | ||
| On the Human Experience of Tools and Machines | ||
| The Social Dimension of Artifacts | ||
| Toward a Phenomenology of Artifacts | ||
| 8 | Types of Technology as Knowledge | 192 |
| Cognitive Development and Myth in Technology | ||
| The Phenomenology of Technical Skill | ||
| Maxims, Laws, Rules, and Theories | ||
| Against Technology as Applied Science | ||
| Cybernetics | ||
| Ancient and Modern Technology | ||
| 9 | Types of Technology as Activity | 209 |
| Technology as Activity | ||
| The Action of Making | ||
| The Process of Using | ||
| Work: From Alienated Labor to "Action into Nature" | ||
| Again, Ancient versus Modern Technology | ||
| 10 | Types of Technology as Volition | 247 |
| Philosophies of Technology as Volition | ||
| Volition as a Conceptual Problem in Relation to Technology | ||
| Philosophies of Volition in Relation to Technology | ||
| Toward Ethics | ||
| Technology and Weakness of the Will | ||
| Conclusion: Continuing to Think about Technology | 267 | |
| The Argument Revisited | ||
| Science, Technology, and Society Studies | ||
| Epilogue: Three Ways of Being-with Technology | 275 | |
| Being-with: From Persons to Technics | ||
| Ancient Skepticism | ||
| Enlightenment Optimism | ||
| Romantic Uneasiness | ||
| Notes | 301 | |
| References | 351 | |
| Index | 383 |
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Michael Erwin
reviewed Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy on September 13, 2012
Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy
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