Philosophy of technology
Abstrak
This course will introduce philosophy of technology through literature, major texts in the Continental tradition, and recent approaches to technology studies in the social sciences. We will begin with Aldous Huxley’s famous novel Brave New World which lays out in narrative form the dystopian terms of 20th Century technology critique. The domination of man by machine is the theme. A dystopian logic of technology underlies the philosophical work of Heidegger and his student Marcuse. Marcuse’s theory, however, opens up the possibility of a radical transformation of technology. With Habermas we have a very different attempt to come to terms with the existing technology by limiting its reach. The contributions of recent science and technology studies are represented here by articles by Pinch and Bijker and Latour, and a collection of case studies by Collins and Pinch. The constructivist approach is non-determinist and focuses on empirical study of cases. We will then read my recent book which draws on all these sources to present an approach I call “critical constructivism.” We will conclude with the contents of a special section of the Information Society Journal in which several authors apply critical constructivism to the study of information technology.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (2)
A. Feenberg
Jairo D Carvalho
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2015
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 365×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.7213/AURORA.27.040.EN01
- Akses
- Open Access ✓