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" Philosophical tools for technological culture : "
Larry A. Hickman.
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BL
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985804
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b740174
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Hickman, Larry A.,1942-
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Philosophical tools for technological culture : : putting pragmatism to work /\ Larry A. Hickman.
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Bloomington :: Indiana University Press,, ©2001.
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The Indiana series in the philosophy of technology
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1 online resource (xi, 215 pages).
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0253108640
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: 0253338697
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: 9780253338693
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0253214440
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0253338697
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Philosophy in a high-tech world -- Tuning up technology -- Technology and community life -- Productive pragmatism: critical theory, and agape -- Art, technoscience, and social action -- Technoscience education for a lifelong curriculum -- Literacy, mediacy, and technological determinism -- Populism and the cult of the expert -- Hope, salvation, and responsibility -- The next technological revolution.
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"Hickman['s] ... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed."--Don IhdeA practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's technological culture. Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture contends that technology -- a defining mark of contemporary culture.
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Pragmatism.
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Technology-- Philosophy.
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Engineering Applied Sciences.
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Pragmatism.
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Technology - General.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- General.
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Technology-- Philosophy.
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601
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T14.H45 2001eb
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