As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex
technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship
between the sciences and the various technologies that support
them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict
our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the fact that we
are now one world? What do new forms of architecture say about whom
we are? Is the design process the new epistemological paradigm? The
answers to all of these is "yes" according to Joseph C. Pitt
(VirginaTech).
Doing Philosophy of Technology presents an updated and
integrated overview of the most important thinking from this
prominent philosopher of technology. Throughout his career Joseph
C. Pitt has defended the view that to say anything meaningful about
the value of a technology one must know something about that
technology and how it functions in the world. This starting point
leads naturally to a pragmatist philosophical stance, since it is
the real world consequences of introducing a technology that must
be the basis for any further normative judgements.
In the book we find an extended set of arguments that challenge
the idea that there are eternal philosophical issues that transcend
the impacts that technologies make on human beings and their world.
Rather, it is claimed that as our technologies transform our world
they transform us and the kinds of questions we find important to
answer.
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