Technology and cultural values : on the edge of the third millennium / edited by Peter D. Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger T. Ames.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hershock, Peter D.

Stepani︠a︡nt︠s︡, M. T. (Mariėtta Tigranovna)

Ames, Roger T., 1947-

Conference Name:

East-West Philosophers' Conference (8th : 2000 : Honolulu, Hawaii)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy--Congresses.

Technology.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Technology--Social aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 614 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press : East-West Philosophers Conference, [2003]

Contents:

1. Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference

Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization / Vyacheslav Stiopin 17

Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival / Frank W. Derringh 26

Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition / Susantha Goonatilake 46

Islam and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Worldviews / Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas 70

2. Biotechnologies

Globalizing the Concepts of Bioethics

Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies / Henk A. M. J. Ten Have 101

Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic / George Khushf 117

Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach / Robert Cummings Neville 132

Japan: A National Case Study

Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care / Carl Becker 139

Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation / William R. Lafleur 158

Buddhism: A Cultural Case Study

Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology / David R. Loy 176

Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology) / Peimin Ni 188

3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent

How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media / Hans-Georg Moller 209

Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply / Paul B. Thompson 222

Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation / Yoko Arisaka 236

Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador / Lois Ann Lorentzen 252

Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl / Kristin Shrader-Frechette 265

Ghandian Perspectives

Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion / Kuruvilla Pandikattu, S.J. 279

Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger's Analysis of Technology / Vasanthi Srinivasan 303

4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species

From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium / Ramon Sentmarti 319

Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation / Monica Opole 341

How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator / Francesca Bray 354

5. Technology and the Home

Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings / Arindam Chakrabarti 385

Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering / David B. Wong 400

Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism / Joel J. Kupperman 416

6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment

Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human / Joseph Margolis 433

Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema / Helen Petrovsky 448

Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction / Thomas P. Kasulis 462

Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology / Rolf Elberfeld 478

7. Technology, Communication, and Education

Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values / Mary Tiles 493

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism / Charles Ess 508

Online Education and the Choices of Modernity / Andrew Feenberg 528

The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology / David Farrell Krell 548

The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet / H. Jiuan Heng 558

8. Critical Afterword

Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation) / James P. Buchanan 577

Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness / Peter D. Hershock 587.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0824826477

OCLC:

52214527