Philosophy of Technology The Cautionary Ontological Approach To Technology of Gabriel Marcel Bernard A. Gendreau Xavier University BAG522@aol.com ABSTRACT: I present the arguments of Gabriel Marcel which are intended to overcome the potentially negative impact of technology on the human. Marcel is concerned with forgetting or rejecting human nature. His perspective is metaphysical. He is concerned with the attitude of the "mere technician" who is so immersed in technology that the value ...

Digital Library & Archives ETDs ImageBase Ejournals News EReserve Special Collections Society for Philosophy and Technology Current Editor: Davis Baird db@sc.edu Current Editorial Assistant: A Bryant aubreybryant@hotmail.com Number 2Winter 1997Volume 3 DLA Ejournal Home | SPT Home | Table of Contents for this issue | Search SPT and other ejournals EXPERIENCING THE WORLD THROUGH INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Agustin A. Araya, San Jose State Univer ...

"Borgmann moves from Plato to the Internet as he traces the fascinating development of information retrieval, storage and manipulation. Lucid and demanding, this study is a fascinating discussion of how information systems developed, and how their cultural and physical presence influences their ability to communicate their message."—Dave Howell, Daily Telegraph "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little arg ...

Artificial Life: A Technoscience Leaving Modernity? An Anthropology of Subjects and Objects New version can be downloaded from www.anthrobase.com (975 K incl. images).

PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION: AN INVITATION TO INQUIRY David Blacker Illinois State University My aim in this brief discussion is to make explicit the ontologies undergirding the various ways in which technology is discussed in a representative sampling of the contemporary critical literature in education, and by doing so to offer an idiom for discussing a set of issues both pressing yet beset by confusion. When I say “critical” I mean to include those discussions with some refle ...

From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads by Andrew Feenberg Introduction What Heidegger called "The Question of Technology" has a peculiar status in the academy today. After World War II, the humanities and social sciences were swept by a wave of technological determinism. If technology was not praised for modernizing us, it was blamed for the crisis of our culture. Whether interpreted in optimistic or pessimistic terms, determinism appeared to offer a f ...

introduction prologueWhy the Philosophy of Symbiosis ? chapter 1From the Age of Machine to the Age of Life chapter 2Symbiosis in Economy chapter 3Transcending Modernism chapter 4Edo, The Pretext for the Age of Symbiosis chapter 5Hanasuki : The Aesthetic of Symbiosis chapter 6Rikyu Gray, Baroque, and Camp : Ambiguity and Ambivalence chapter 7An Experimental City in the Desert chapter 8Intermediary Space chapter 9The Philosophy of Consciousness Only and Symbiosis chapter 10The Symbiosis of Man and Nature chapter 11The Philosophy of Karakuri chapter 12From Postmodernism to Symbiosis chapter 13The Symbiosis of Redevelopment and Restoration chapter 14Toward the Evocation of Meaning epilogueLiberation from Craving and Ignorance book information

[Brain Death Resources] Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading James J. Hughes Prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death Second International Symposium on Brain Death Havana Cuba * February 27-March 1, 1995 Contents Abstract Introduction Social Death: Operationalizing the Death Concept Technological Change, and Changes in Social Death Diagnostic Advances Neural Tissue Transplants and Chemical Stimulation ...

On Contemporary Philosophies of Technology by Frank H. W. Edler Copyright © 2000-2001 by Frank Edler (Paper presented to the Eastern Division meeting of the Community College Humanities Association on November 10 in Rockville, Maryland. Minor revisions have been made to this paper.) We are on the threshhold of crossing human being with technology in a way ...

CSE268D: Social Aspects of Technolgy and Science Notes for the First Meeting Remarks: I should have issued a warning in class: because I encourage participation, things may sometimes seem confusing, or even disorganized; however, I will always draw it back together with little remarks along the way; if you miss these in class, you should be able find them in the lecture notes. These notes are intended as an outline of the main points, rather than a careful exposition; moreover, I cannot ...

Home > Philosophy > 1997 After Postmodernism Conference > Dreyfus (background) Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology Hubert L. Dreyfus Department of Philosophy Moses Hall - MC2390 University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720-2390 Charles Spinosa Department of English Bachelor Hall Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 Albert Borgmann advances an American frontiersman's version of the question concerning technology that was p ...

TOWARD UNDERSTANDING E -PRIME Robert Anton Wilson E-PRIME, abolishing all forms of the verb "to be," has its roots in the field of general semantics, as presented by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 book, Science and Sanity. Korzybski pointed out the pitfalls associated with, and produced by, two usages of "to be": identity and predication. His student D. David Bourland, Jr., observed that even linguistically sensitive people do not seem able to avoid identity and predication uses of "to be" ...

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Welcome to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's ELSI Project Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's ELSI in Science program is a pilot project designed to stimulate discussions on the implications of selected areas of scientific research. These modules probably will be most useful to educators and students at the middle school through high school level. However, we hope that other visitors will find the information interesting and useful as well. A second goal of the program is t ...

McLuhan Meets the Net By Larry Press Communications of the ACM, Vol 38, No 7, July, 1995, pp 15-20 In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media, a classic discussion of media and their effects on society and the individual. Understanding Media helped transform the 52-year old McLuhan from a somewhat obscure English professor at the University of Toronto, to an academic and media star, and industrial consultant. In recognition of the book's importance, it has been reissued by ...

Regent University offers the following degree programs: COMMUNICATION STUDIES - MA in Communication - PhD in Communication. Cinema- Television & Theatre Arts - MA in Communication - MFA in Script and Screenwriting - MA in Digital Animation Journalism - MA in Journalism Visit Regent's School of Communication & the Arts Preface Introduction Definitions A Brief History of Technology Early Philosophers of Technology Man the Prosthetic god The Neutrality of Technology The Technological Dilemma Philosophical Assumptions in Cyberspace Conclusions References © 1995 Samuel Ebersole

Metaphysics and Technology TERRY ALDEN A Talk Given On May 12, 1993 At The Valley West Church Of Religious Science Campbell, California Audio Transcript: Good evening. My name is Terry Alden and I would like to share some of my ideas and thoughts on the relationship between metaphysics and technology. If you came here with questions about how to fix your washing machine or how to program your VCR or something like that, don't ask me. I don't know. Question/Comment: "Ask me; I'll tel ...

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Postmodern Virtualities Mark Poster (This essay appears as Chapter 2 in my book The Second Media Age (Blackwell 1995) On the eve of the twenty first century there have been two innovative discussions about the general conditions of life: one concerns a possible "postmodern" culture and even society; the other concerns broad, massive changes in communications systems. Postmodern culture is often presented as an alternative to existing society which is pictured as structurally limited or f ...

Digital Library & Archives ETDs ImageBase Ejournals News EReserve Special Collections Society for Philosophy and Technology Current Editor: Davis Baird db@sc.edu Current Editorial Assistant: A Bryant aubreybryant@hotmail.com Numbers 1-2Fall 1995Volume 1 DLA Ejournal Home | Techné Home | Table of Contents for this issue | Search Techné and other ejournals ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY, PAST AND FUTURE Joseph C. Pitt,Virginia Polytechnic Institute an ...

The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Sven Birkerts Faber and Faber BOSTON • LONDON All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. First published in 1994 in the United States by Faber and Faber, Inc., 50 Cross Street, Winchester, MA 01890. Copyright © 1994 by Sven Birkerts part ii The Electronic Millennium (Selected Fragments) 8 Into the Electronic ...

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THE FUTURE DOES NOT COMPUTE Transcending the Machines in Our Midst THE FUTURE DOES NOT COMPUTE--Transcending the Machines in Our Midst, by Stephen L. Talbott (Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1995). Hardcover, 502 pages, $22.95. ISBN: 1-56592-085-6. Backcover text Inside flap text Reviews Table of Contents (with annotations) Chapters (full text) -------------------- Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 ...

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine / Volume 2, Number 1 / January 1, 1995 / Page 3 The Nerd in the Noosphere by Michael Heim (mheim@earthlink.net) "Virtual community" seems a cure-all for isolated people who won't give up their isolation. Locked in metal boxes on urban freeways, a population enjoys socializing with fellow humans through computer networks. Shopping, learning, and business are not far away once we enhance our telepresence abilities. The prospect seems so excitin ...

Toward of Philosophy of Science and Technology Anonymous LIS 296A (Sec 4) Dec. 20, 1993 © NOTICE Something is wrong. In past fifty years we've witnessed an explosion of technological advances that has precipitated rapid changes in all forms of communication and social structures, the transportation of human life to the moon and the recreation of it in earthly test tubes, and the elevation of the status of science to nearly that of religion. Yet, despite the never slackening pace of scie ...