Technology and the Good Life?
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2010
405 pages
978-0-226-33388-5 (ISBN)
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Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master?Technology and the Good Life? uses a careful collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial and influential ideas as a jumping-off point from which to address questions such as these about the role and significance of technology in our lives. Contributors both sympathetic and critical examine Borgmann's work, especially his ",device paradigm",, apply his theories to new areas such as film, agriculture, design, and ecological restoration, and consider the place of his thought within philosophy and technology studies more generally.Because this collection carefully investigates the issues at the heart of how we can take charge of life with technology, it will be a landmark work not just for philosophers of technology but for students and scholars in the many disciplines concerned with science and technology studies.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Technology and the Good Life?
- I. Philosophy of Technology Today
- 1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology
- 2. Philosophy of Technology: Retrospective and Prospective Views
- II. Evaluating Focal Things
- 3. Focal Things and Focal Practices
- 4. Technology and Nostalgia
- 5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform of Technology
- 6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen: On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place
- 7. On Character and Technology
- III. Theory in the Service of Practice
- 8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things
- 9. Farming as Focal Practice
- 10. Design and the Reform of Technology: Venturing Out into the Open
- 11. Nature by Design
- IV. Extensions and Controversies
- 12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice
- 13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace
- 14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity
- 15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure and the Entrenchment of the Device
- 16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads
- 17. Philosophy in the Service of Things
- V. Postscript
- 18. Reply to My Critics
- Afterword
- Index
