Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology : Keeping Things Going / edited by Mark Thomas Young and Mark Coeckelbergh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Young, Mark Thomas, editor.

Coeckelbergh, Mark, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Biography/History:

Mark Thomas Young is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Vienna. His research covers two fields: the Philosophy of Technology, where he focuses on practices of maintenance and the use of automating technologies, and the History and Philosophy of Science, where he explores instruments, craft practices and tacit knowledge in the early modern period. Mark Coeckelbergh is afull Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He was President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and is the author of numerous publications including Environmental Skill, AI Ethics, Self-Improvement and The Political Philosophy of AI.

Contents:

1. Keeping Things Going: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology Mark Thomas Young and Mark CoeckelberghPart 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Maintenance2. Maintenance and the Humanness of InfrastructureSteven Vogel3. Technology in Process: Maintenance and the Metaphysics of ArtefactsMark Thomas Young4. There, I Fixed It! On the Status and Meaning of Repair Tiago Mesquita Carvalho5. A Standpoint Epistemology of Repair? Cristina Bernabéu and Jesús Vega-Encabo6. Sustainability as Planetary Maintenance Jochem Zwier7. Towards a Realist Metaphysics of Software Maintenance Keith Begley8. Maintaining Perpetual Actuality in the Digital Age? Simondon's Conception of Maintenance and the Networked Era Johannes F.M. SchickPart 2: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Maintenance9. Maintenance of Value and the Value of MaintenanceSteffen Steinert10. An Eco-Ethics for the End of the Anthropocene: Finding Ethical and Sustainable Paths through Consumerism, Disposability and Planned ObsolescenceSimon Penny11. Aesthetic Values in the Maintenance of Urban TechnologiesSanna Lehtinen12. Negotiating Visions of Waste: On the Ethics of Maintaining Waste Infrastructures Joost Alleblas and Benjamin Hofbauer13. Repairing AITaylor Stone and Aimee van Wynsberghe

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed March 19, 2024).

ISBN:

9781003316213

1003316212

9781040024911

1040024912

9781040024966

1040024963

Publisher Number:

90101468706

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.