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Thinking through Science and Technology - Philosophy, Religions, and Policy in an Engineered World (Hardcover): Glen Miller,... Thinking through Science and Technology - Philosophy, Religions, and Policy in an Engineered World (Hardcover)
Glen Miller, Helena Mateus Jeronimo, Qin Zhu
R3,534 R3,320 Discovery Miles 33 200 Save R214 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Portuguese Philosophy of Technology - Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Portuguese Philosophy of Technology - Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Helena Mateus Jeronimo
R3,164 Discovery Miles 31 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil. Their contributions detail a unique perspective on technology, placing this important topic within the historical, ideological and social contexts of their countries, all of which share a common language. The shared history of these countries and the cultural and economic specificities of each one have stimulated singular insights into these thinkers' reflections. The essays are thematically diverse. Among the topics covered are technogenic knowledge, visions of technology, risks and uncertainties, mediatization, digitalization, and datafication, engineering practice and ethics, alternative technoscientific strategies, ontotechnologies of the body, virtual and archive. The contributions also explore other themes that are more closely related to the semi-peripheral world, such as technological dependence and the incorporation of Western technology into the social structure of ancestral communities. This book appeals to students and researchers and provides a voice to authors whose work are not usually available in English-language publications. It serves as an ideal guide for all those who seek rigorous and geographically widespread knowledge regarding thinking on technology in several Portuguese-speaking countries.

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