Advancements in science, technology, and engineering are ubiquitously embraced across the globe. Their promises—more material goods, longer and healthier lives, more convenience, and more pleasure and less suffering—and their overall track record of results have largely insulated them from critical evaluation. The problems they cause are often depicted as flaws with a particular technology in some context, and their resolutions are proposed as better technologies or different deployments. This diagnosis is accepted by most people, who, while bombarded with messages of the salvific power of STEM, know little about what its practitioners do or how most technologies work.This edited volume transcends the mood of technological optimism and disciplinary captivity to develop a critical, broad, and diverse understanding of how science, technology, and engineering have transformed human experiences, practices, and values, with an emphasis on ethics, religion, and policy. The escalating intensity of these transformations on more aspects of human existence—a trend accelerated by responses to COVID-19—and growing recognition of the severity and extent of their accompanying psychological, social, cultural, and environmental consequences make this effort timely. The chapters, many written by prominent intellectuals, draw on a range of disciplinary and cultural resources and most will likely be intellectually important and well-received individually. Taken together, the book will provide an unsurpassed composite, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural view of science, technology, and engineering and the transformations they cause. The book includes twenty-seven chapters by scholars from the United States, Latin America, China, and Europe. The contributions use resources from diverse disciplines and traditions to help readers to think through the always changing sociotechnical milieu in which we live and work.
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This edited volume transcends technological optimism and disciplinary captivity to develop a critical, broad, and diverse understanding of how science, technology, and engineering have transformed human experiences, practices, and values, with an emphasis on ethics, religion, and policy.
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ForewordCarl MitchamPrefaceGlen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin ZhuChapter 1: Editors' IntroductionGlen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin ZhuPart I: Philosophy and TechnologyCh 2: The Enigma of TechnologyAndrew FeenbergChapter 3: Organization as Technique: A Blind Spot in the Philosophy of TechnologyDaniel Cérézuelle, translation by Christian RoyChapter 4: Technology as ProcessMark CoeckelberghChapter 5: Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo StraussCarl MitchamChapter 6: The Nuclear Menace and the Prophecy of DoomJean-Pierre DupuyChapter 7: The End of Technology and the Renewal of RealityAlbert BorgmannPart II: Philosophy and EngineeringChapter 8: An Engineer Considers Technological (Non)Neutrality: “But Where Are the Values?Byron NewberryChapter 9: How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics EducationJanna van Grunsven, Lavinia Marin, Taylor Stone, Sabine Roeser & Neelke DoornChapter 10: Parallel Steps toward Philosophy of Engineering in China and WestNan WANG and LI BocongChapter 11: The Development of the Philosophy of Engineering in China: Engaging the Scholarship of Carl MitchamTong LI and Yongmou LIUPart III: Religion, Science, and TechnologyChapter 12: Christianity, Power, and Technological Domination: A Typological Approach to the ChurchJosé Antonio UllateChapter 13: Technology in Cosmic Terms: The World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, 1948Jennifer Karns AlexanderChapter 14: Beyond Tools, Means, and Ends: Explorations into the Post-Instrumental ErehwonJean RobertChapter 15: Understanding Bureaucratic Order: The Theological Paradigms of Modern HierarchySajay SamuelChapter 16: What Religion, What Technology? A Wittgensteinian ApproachAndoni AlonsoChapter 17: Bioethics, Philosophy, and Religious Wisdom: A Critical Assessment of Leon Kass’s ThoughtLarry ArnhartPart IV: Science and Technology StudiesChapter 18: Ethics and the Search for Scientific Knowledge: The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth? Carlos Verdugo-SernaChapter 19: A Short History of Science, Truth, and Politics in the United States, 1945–2021Daniel SarewitzChapter 20: Moral Narratives of Technological Change in the Early Green RevolutionSuzanne MoonChapter 21: Momentum, Interrupted: Developing Habits of Discernment in Engineering and BeyondJen SchneiderChapter 22: Innovation Policy Driven by the Market: The Second Great DisembeddednessJosé Luís GarciaPart V: Science and Technology PolicyChapter 23: Irrational Energy EthicsAdam BriggleChapter 24: Paradoxical Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women’s Farming, Oil, and Sustainable DevelopmentTricia Glazebrook and Gordon Akon-YamgaChapter 25: The Pandemic and Clamor for Vaccines: Ethical-Legal Considerations for Intellectual Property Rights and Technology SharingPamela AndandaChapter 26: An Effective History of the Basic-Applied Distinction in “Science” PolicyJ: Britt HolbrookChapter 27: Technological Risks, Institutional Wariness, and the Dynamics of TrustJosé A: López CerezoAbout the ContributorsIndexAbout the Editors
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ISBN
9781538176504
Publisert
2023-03-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
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934 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
582

Biographical note

Glen Miller is instructional associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He was the lead editor for Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde, is an associate editor for the journal Science and Engineering Ethics, and has published articles on philosophy of technology, engineering, ethics, education, the environment, and business.

Qin Zhu is assistant professor of Ethics and Engineering Education at Colorado School of Mines. He has co-edited a volume on philosophy and engineering and co-authored a book (in Chinese) on engineering ethics; he is currently an associate editor for the journal Engineering Studies.

Helena Jerónimo is assistant professor in the School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She was lead editor of Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century. She has published articles in both English and Portuguese on science and technology studies, risks and sustainability, and human resource management and organizational behaviour. She is a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology.