Technology and the good life? / edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higgs, Eric, 1958-

Light, Andrew, 1966-

Strong, David, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 392 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Contents:

I Philosophy of Technology Today 17

1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology / David Strong, Eric Higgs 19

2. Philosophy of Technology: Retrospective and Prospective Views / Paul T. Durbin 38

II Evaluating Focal Things 51

3. Focal Things and Focal Practices / Lawrence Haworth 55

4. Technology and Nostalgia / Gordon G. Brittan Jr. 70

5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform of Technology / Larry Hickman 89

6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen: On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place / Andrew Light 106

7. On Character and Technology / Carl Mitcham 126

III Theory in the Service of Practice 149

8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things / Phillip R. Fandozzi 153

9. Farming as Focal Practice / Paul B. Thompson 166

10. Design and the Reform of Technology: Venturing Out into the Open / Jesse S. Tatum 182

11. Nature by Design / Eric Higgs 195

IV Extensions and Controversies 213

12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice / Diane P. Michelfelder 219

13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace / Douglas Kellner 234

14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity / Mora Campbell 256

15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure and the Entrenchment of the Device / Thomas Michael Power 271

16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads / Andrew Feenberg 294

17. Philosophy in the Service of Things / David Strong 316

18. Reply to My Critics / Albert Borgmann 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226333868

0226333876

OCLC:

43411450