TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verkerk, Maarten J.
AU  - Hoogland, Jan
AU  - Stoep, Jan van der
AU  - Vries, Marc J. de
TI  - Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction for Technology and Business Students
SN  - 9781138904392
U1  - 601 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Technology - Philosophy
N1  - Part I: Thinking and making
1. Thinking and technology: Between analysis and criticism
Portrait 1: Carl Mitcham (1941)
2. Speaking in a two-sided way: The meaning of disclosure and the disclosure of meaning
Portrait 2: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

Part II: Making and designing
3. The world of technology: Three kinds of complexity
Portrait 3: Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
4. The artefact [I]: Diversity and coherence
Portrait 4: Alasdair MacIntyre (1929)
5. The artefact [II]: Identity, function and structure
Portrait 5: Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989)
Case study I: Nanotechnology
6. Knowledge of designing: The role of the engineer
Portrait 6: Herbert Simon (1916-2001)
7. Design and reality: Methodological obstinacy
Portrait 7: Bruno Latour (1947)
8. Technology and production: From dehumanisation to human measure
Portrait 8: Larry Hickman (1942)
Case study II: A new factory

Part III: Designing and thinking
9. The rules of the game: Technology as a social practice
Portrait 9: Langdon Winner (1944)
10. Symmetries: Between pessimists and optimists
Portrait 10: Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
11. Clashing worlds: Globalisation and cultural diversity
Portrait 11: Albert Borgmann (1937)
Case study III: Network enabled military operations
12. Homo technicus: From device to cyborg
Portrait 12: Don Ihde (1934)
13. `Good' technology?: Normative artefacts and the web of responsibilities
Portrait 13: Egbert Schuurman (1937)
Case study IV: Innovation in health care
14. Expectations for the future: The secular sacred and the limits of technology
Portrait 14: Andrew Feenberg (1943)
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