Philosophy of technology [electronic resource]: an introduction /
Val Dusek.
- Malden, MA ; Oxford Blackwell Pub., 2006.
- 1 digital resource (v, 244 p.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-233) and index.
Philosophy of science and technology -- What is technology? : defining or characterizing technology -- Technocracy -- Rationality, technological rationality, and reason -- Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and technology -- Technological determinism -- Autonomous technology -- Human nature : tool-making or language? -- Women, feminism, and technology -- Non-western technology and local knowledge -- Anti-technology : romanticism, Luddism, and the ecology movement -- Social constructionism and actor-network theory.