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phil/tech essays
Essays on the Philosophy of
Technology I
Copyright ©
2000-2001 by Frank Edler
Authors:
A through J (listed below)
Click
here for: Authors K through Z
New !!
The debate
over Technorealism versus Techno-Luddism
and Techno-utopianism. Click here for an overview of
Technorealism.
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New !!
Kirkpatrick
Sale, Howard Rheingold, Mark Stahlman, Steve
Silberman, and Brooke Shelby Biggs
discuss the question: What is it that you fear
most about digital technology's effects?
 Evandro Agazzi's and Hans Lenk's
Introduction: Proceedings of
a Meeting of the International Academy of the Philosophy
of Science, Karlsruhe, Germany, May, 1997.
Theodor Adorno's Culture Industry
Reconsidered ( from Adorno's book "The
Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture.")
Adelaida Ambrogi Alvarez's Sociological Studies and
Philosophical Studies: Twenty Years of Controversy.
Agustin A. Araya's Experiencing the World
through Interactive Learning Environments.
John Armitage's Resisting the Neoliberal
Discourse of Technology: The Politics of Cyberculture in the Age of Virtual Class.
American Association for
Artificial Intelligence's Home Page. (Links to AI resources)
Albert A.
Anderson's Why Prometheus Suffers:
Technology and the Ecological Crisis.
Dr. Alan
Aycock's Virtual Play: Baudrillard
Online
and "Technologies of the
Self:" Foucault and Internet Discourse.
Babette Babich's The Essence of Questioning
After Technology: Techne as Constraint and the Saving Power.
Joanne Baldine's Is Human Identity an
Artifact? How Some Conceptions of the Asian and Western
Self Fare during Technological and Legal Development.
Jean
Baudrillard's America (Excerpts) and A Conjuration of Imbiciles.
Jean Baudrillard on the New
Technologies -- an
interview with Claude Thibaut.
Jean
Baudrillard's Disneyworld Company and Vivisecting the 90s: An
Interview with Jean Baudrillard. For
other essays by Baudrillard, see Alan Taylor's site Baudrillard
on the Web.
Richard
Beardsworth's From a Geneology of Matter
to a Politics of Memory: Stiegler's Thinking of Technics.
Tad Beckman's Martin Heidegger and
Environmental Ethics (Although this essay deals
with environmental ethics, it treats also what Heidegger
sees as the essence of technology.)
Information Technology in
Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects,
Challenges
(American
Council of Learned Societies )
Walter
Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction.
Frank
Biocca's The Cyborg's Dilemma:
Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments
(This extensive essay focuses on how the body feels
"present" in virtual environments. For an
additional essay on
the concept of presence, see Lombard and Ditton below.)
Sven
Birkerts' The Electronic Millennium (Selected Fragments) and Is Cyberspace Destroying
Society? An Online Conference with Sven Birkerts. See also Wen Stephenson's The Message Is the Medium: A
Reply to Sven Birkerts and The Gutenberg Elegies and Birkerts' reply to Stephenson. Two reviews of Birkerts' The
Gutenberg Elegies by Dean Blobaum and Susan Lewis-Wallace, see also Cliff Becker's interview with Sven Birkerts.
David
Blacker's Philosophy of Technology and
Education: An Invitation to Inquiry. ( See Mark Selman's response to Blacker's essay.)
Albert
Borgmann's Holding On to Reality: The
Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium (This an excerpt from the
Introduction to Borgmann's book.)
Albert
Borgmann: The journal
Techne has devoted volume
6, issue1 to Borgmann's philosophy of technology; the guest editor
for the issue is Phil Mullins. Contributors to the issue include
Eliseo Fernandez, Myron Tuman, Charles Ess, Phil Mullins, Peter-Paul
Verbeek, Hans Achterhuis. Borgmann also responds to these essays.
For other reviews, see Sundeep Sahay
and Gregory
K. Raschke; for an interview/dialogue with
both Borgmann and N. Katherine Hayles on humans and
machines, see interview/dialogue. For an article on Borgmann, see Douglas
Kellner's Crossing the Postmodern Divide with
Borgmann or Adventures in Cyberspace. For a review of Borgmann's 1984
book Technology and the Character of Contemorary
Life, see Lawrence Design.
Alfred Borgmann's Society
in the Postmodern Era
Aleksandar
Boskovic's Virtual Places: Imagined
Boundaries and Hyperreality in Southeastern Europe.
Nick
Bostrom's (et al) The Transhumanist FAQ (A good website for answers to
basic questions about
the philosophy of transhumanism and about the
intersection between humanism and electronic
technologies.)
Rosie
Braidotti's Cyberfeminism with a
difference A long essay which includes the
following table of contents: introduction to postmodernity, post-human bodies, the politics of parody, the power of irony,
feminist visions on science
fiction, the cyber imaginary, the need for new utopias, and notes.
J.
van Brakel's Telematic Life Forms.
Marcus
Breen's Information Does not Equal
Knowledge: Theorizing the Political Economy of
Virtuality.
Philip
Brey's Philosophy of Technology
Meets Social Constructivism
Bertram
C. Bruce's Writing with Digital
Technologies: How New Media Transform Our Literacy
Practices
and
Dewey and Technology and Educational Technology (encyclopedia entry).
Bertram
C. Bruce's Educational Reform: How Does
Technological Affect Educational Change?
Bertram
C. Bruce's and Shihkuan Hsu's The Missing Borders:
Pedagogical Reflections from Distance Education.
Donald
M. Bruce's Polly, Dolly, Megan, and
Morag: A View from Edinburgh on Cloning and Genetic Engineering.
Stanley
R. Carpenter's When Are Technologies
Sustainable?
Randy Chafy's Exploring the Intellectual
Foundation of Technology
Education: From Condorset to Dewey.
Daniel
Chandler's Technological or Media
Determinism
A long
essay which includes the following sections: (1) contents page, (2) introduction, (3) technology-led theories, (4) reductionism, (5) mechanistic models
(6) reification, (7) technological autonomy, (8) the 'technological imperative, (9) technology as neutral or
non-neutral,
(10) universalism,
(11) techno-evolution as 'progress,' (12) theoretical stances, (13)
deterministic language, (14) conclusion, (15) references and related readings, (16) relevant links.
Andrzej Chmielecki's What Is Information?
Leigh Clayton's Are There Virtual
Communities?
Alberto Cordero's On the Growing
Complementarity of Science and Technology.
Colleen Cordes' As Educators Rush to Embrace
Technology, a Coterie of Skeptics Seeks to be
Heard ( The Chronicle of Higher
Education, 1-16-98. Join the debate on this issue provided by The
Chronicle.)
James Courtney's, David
Croasdell's, and David Paradice's Lockean Inquiring Organizations:
Guiding Principles and Design Guidelines for
Learning Organizations.
Richard Coyne's Designing Information
Technology in the Postmodern Age. ( This is a review of Coyne's
book by Pete Ferreira.)
Richard
Coyne's The Embodied Architect in
the Age of Information (Inaugural Lecture,
Feb.16,1999);
See also Coyne's (et al) Computers in Practice: A
Survey of Computers in Architectural Practice as well as Coyne's Modelling with Attitude (large file). A Table of Contents of Coyne's new work Technoromanticism.
John
December's Blinded by Science? ( Editor's Page, CMC Magazine.)
Daniel
C. Dennett's Postmodernism and Truth and Making Tools for Thinking.
Daniel
C. Dennett's Artificial Life As
Philosophy
and The Role of Language in
Intelligence.
John
Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916). ( This is the complete
text,all 26 chapters of Dewey's book are here.)
John Dewey's The Reflex Arc Concept in
Psychology
and also
another article
The Psychology of Effort.
John Dewey's The Theory of Emotion. (1)
Emotional Attitudes and part 2
The Theory of Emotion. (2)
The Significance of Emotions.
John Dobson's and Mike Martin's The Ontology of Enterprises
and Information Systems.
Hubert
L. Dreyfus' Highway
Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to
Affirm Technology ( Scroll down a little bit for the
essay; Dreyfus is also mentioned in Colleen Cordes' article
above.)
Hubert
L. Dreyfus' Merleau-Ponty's Critique of
Mental Representation: The Relevance of Phenomenology to Scientific
Explanation. Intelligence without Representation.
A
review of Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Still Can't Do by John McCarthy (Book Review) which includes several sections.
Hubert
L. Dreyfus' Coping with Things in
Themselves: Heidegger's Robust Realism as well as his and Stuart
Dreyfus' From Socrates to Expert
Systems: The Limits and Dangers of Calculaive
Rationality.
Peter
Drucker's Knowledge Work and Knowledge
Society: The Social Transformations of This Century. ( Drucker's Edwin L.Godkin
Lecture in 1994 at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government.)
Peter
Drucker's The Age of Social
Transformation.
Paul
T. Durbin's Advances in Philosophy of
Technology? Comparative Perspectives.
Samuel
Ebersole's Media Determinism in
Cyberspace
This
web site includes the following interesting chapters: (1) Preface(2) Introduction, (3) Definitions, (4) A Brief History of Technology (5) Early Philosophers of Technology, (6) Man the Prosthetic god, (7) The Neutrality of Technology, (8) The Technological Dilemma, (9) Philosophical Assumptions in
Cyberspace,
(10) Conclusions, (11) References.
Frank Edler's On
Contemporary Philosophies of Technology.
Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society (An exerpt from Ellul's book;
for three reviews of Ellul's book,
see Paula Mathieu and Ken McAllister , Susan A. Santo and also David S. Gallinat)
Paul Ernest's Social Constructivism as a
Philosophy of Mathematics: Radical Constructivism
Rehabilitated
Essays on Constructivism and
Education
( Collected by
the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher
Preparation.)
Andrew Feenberg's Summary Remarks on My
Approach to the Philosophical Study of
Technology. (Good summary) See also Modernity Theory and
Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap.
(For responses to Feenberg, see Ian Thomson's What's
Wrong with Being a Technological Essentialist? A
Response to Feenberg and
Andrew Light's Technology,
Democracy and Environmentalism -On Feenberg's
Questioning Technology.
Andrew Feenberg's Marcuse or Habermas: Two
Critiques of Technology.
Andrew
Feenberg's From Essentialism to
Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the
Crossroads.
Andrew
Feenberg's Subversive Rationalization:
Technology, Power, and Democracy.
Andrew
Feenberg's Heidegger, Habermas, and the
Essence of Technology
Lloyd
Fell's A few
clues about autopoiesis terminology ( Terminology relating to the
position of radical constructivism held by Ernst von
Glasersfeld, Humberto Maturana, Gordon Pask, and George
Kelly.)
Frederick
Ferre's Philosophy and Technology
After Twenty Years and On Replicating Persons: Ethics and the Technology of
Cloning.
Frederick
Ferre's Philosophy of Technology (Prentice Hall, 1988. Ferre's
book is reviewed here by Carl Mitcham)
Pete
Ferreira's Heidegger and Technology
Links.
Patrick
N. Foster's Classifying Approaches to
and Philosophies of Elementary-School Technology
Education.
Luciano
Floridi's Information Ethics: On the
Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics.
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