Technology and Cultural Values : On the Edge of the Third Millennium / Peter D. Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, Roger T. Ames.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ames, Roger T., editor.

Hershock, Peter D., editor.

Stepaniants, Marietta, editor.

Conference Name:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy--Congresses.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Contributors: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Roger T. Ames,Yoko Arisaka, Carl Becker, Francesca Bray, James Buchanan, Arindam Chakrabarti, Frank W. Derringh, Rolf Elberfeld, Charles Ess, Andrew Feenberg, Susantha Goonatilake, H. Jiuan Heng, Peter Hershock, Thomas P. Kasulis, George Khushf, David Farrell Krell, Joel J. Kupperman, William R. LaFleur, Lois Ann Lorentzen, David Loy, Joseph Margolis, Hans-Georg Möller, Robert Cummings Neville, Peimin Ni, Monica Atieno Opole, Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ, Helen Petrovsky, Ramon Sentmartí, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Vasanthi Srinivasan, Marietta Stepaniants, Vyacheslav S. Stiopin, Henk ten Have, Paul B.Thompson, Mary Tiles, David B.Wong.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Buchanan, James / Hershock, Peter

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

Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization / Stiopin, Vyacheslav

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

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

Islām and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Worldviews / Al-Attas, Syed Muhammad Naquib

2. Biotechnologies

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

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

Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach / Cummings Neville, Robert

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

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

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

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

3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent

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

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

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

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

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

Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion / Pandikattu, Kuruvilla

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

4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species

From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium / Sentmartí, Ramon

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

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

5. Technology and the Home

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

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

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

6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment

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

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

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

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

7. Technology, Communication, and Education

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

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

Online Education and the Choices of Modernity / Feenberg, Andrew

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

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

8. Critical Afterword

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

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

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

0-8248-4496-3

OCLC:

1013957212