Philosophy of engineering and artifact in the digital age / edited by Viorel Guliciuc and Emilia Guliciuc.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guliciuc, Viorel.

Guliciuc, Emilia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our world became engineered, remaining, nevertheless, human. Through the philosophy of engineering, both Engineering and Philosophy are profoundly involved in the transcendental curve of the debates on the future of humankind in the Era of the Artifacts, brought by the emergent technologies of robotics, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. In the Era-Just-Before-Singularity, while engineering is improved by philosophy (as Peter Simons has demonstrated), the "respected system of perplexit...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LETTER ADDRESSED BY LUCIANO FLORIDITO THE PHEADE 2009 PARTICIPANTS; CHAPTER ONE; PHILOSOPHY, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOETHICS; THEORIES AND SPECIFICATIONS; MORAL MEDIATORS IN TECHNOLOGY; A PHILOSOPHER'S TAKE ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; COGNITIVE LIFE RE-ENGINEERED; HUMAN ENGINEERING; CHAPTER TWO; PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNIQUE; "THE" ONTOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY -ASSUMPTIONS AND MEANINGS; ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN A KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY; WHAT IS A TECHNOLOGICAL MENTALITY?; IS THERE A CULTURE OF ENGINEERING?; CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF REVERSE-ENGINEERING; CHAPTER THREE

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AND ETHICS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIETYINNOVATIONAL CULTURE THROUGH PERFORMANCE AND INVENTICS SCHOOL FROM IASI; SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY; TOWARDS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CENTRED ON INFORMATIONAL PROCESSES; PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF QUANTIC PHYSICS IN MEASURING PROCESSES AND INSTRUMENTATIONS; TAGS AND FOLKSONOMIES AS ARTEFACTS OF MEANING; SUBSTANCE-ENERGY-INFORMATION MODEL IN THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS; PRINCIPLES OF THE BRAIN-COMPUTER ANALOGY; INSTEAD OF THE CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-282-77638-X

9786612776380

1-4438-2054-7

OCLC:

827209449