Philosophy of Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Practical Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Cybernetics, Culpability, and Risk: Automatic Launch and Accidental War

      • Lyle V. Anderson

      Pages 3-25

   3. Catastrophic Possibilities of Space-Based Defense

      • David Bella

      Pages 27-40

   4. Judgment and Policy: The Two-Step in Mandated Science and Technology

      • Edwin Levy

      Pages 41-59

3. Historical Dimensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Skull’s Darkroom: The Camera Obscura and Subjectivity

      • Lee W. Bailey

      Pages 63-79

   3. Workplace Democracy for Teachers: John Dewey’s Contribution

      • Edmund F. Byrne

      Pages 81-95

   4. Doing and Making in a Democracy: Dewey’s Experience of Technology

      • Larry Hickman

      Pages 97-111

   5. Pragmatism, Praxis, and the Technological

      • Joseph Margolis

      Pages 113-130

4. International and Intergenerational Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Philosophy of Technology in China

      • Gao Dasheng, Zou Tsing

      Pages 133-151

   3. Design Methodology: A Personal Statement

      • Wojciech Gasparski

      Pages 153-167

   4. Responsibility and Future Generations: A Constructivist Model

      • Janet Farrell Smith

      Pages 169-186

5. Back Matter

   Pages 187-192

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The corps of philosophers who make up the Society for Philosophy & Technology has now been collaborating, in one fashion or another, for almost fifteen years. In addition, the number of philosophers, world-wide, who have begun to focus their analytical skills on technology and related social problems grows increasingly every year. {It would certainly swell the ranks if all of them joined the Society!) It seems more than ap­ propriate, in this context, to publish a miscellaneous volume that em­ phasizes the extraordinary range and diversity of contemporary contribu­ tions to the philosophical understanding of the exceedingly complex phenomenon that is modern technology. My thanks, once again, to the anonymous referees who do so much to maintain standards for the series. And thanks also to the secretaries - Mary Imperatore and Dorothy Milsom - in the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware; their typing and retyping of the MSS, and especially notes and references, also contributes to keeping our standards high. PAUL T. DURBIN vii Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Philosophy ofT echnology, p. vii.

• Praxis
• design
• model
• philosophy of technology
• risk

• University of Delaware, USA

  Paul T. Durbin

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