Title | Philosophy of Technology in Spanish Speaking Countries [electronic resource] / edited by Carl Mitcham |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1892-7 |
Descript | XXXVI, 319 p. online resource |
I From Chile -- Technology and Politics: Toward Artificial History? -- Globalization: Homogenization with an Increasing Technological Gap -- Thinking Machines and the Crisis of Modern Reason -- Ethics, Science, and Technology -- II From Costa Rica -- Contributions to the Philosophy of Technology in Costa Rica -- Science, Technology, and Development: Some Models of Their Relationship -- Ethics, Pernicious Technology, and the โTechnological Argumentโ -- III From Mexico -- Technology and Basic Needs: Proposal for a Debate on Fundamental Criteria -- On Technique -- Technological Objects and Their Epistemological Base -- Satellites and Our Morality -- IV From Spain -- Technology and Human Nature -- Philosophy, Technology, and Society -- Does Technology โConstructโ Scientific Reality? -- The Design and Evaluation of Technologies: Some Conceptual Issues -- From World3 to the Social Assessment of Technology: Remarks on Science, Technology, and Society -- Genethics: The Social Assessment of the Risks and Impacts of Genetic Engineering -- V From Venezuela -- Science, Technology, History, and Philosophy in the Cultural Atmosphere of Our Time -- The Present and Future of Humanity -- Education for Freedom versus Socio-Technical Control by Pedagogical Means -- VI From Other Americas -- Two Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Technics and Their Meaning for Latin America -- Science, Technology, and Society Education in the Latin American Context -- The Moral Vision of Technology in Contemporary Latin American Fiction -- The Social Implications of Information Technologies: A Latin American Perspective -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index