New Waves in Philosophy of Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger, Søren Riis

      Pages 1-9

3. History of Philosophy and Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Homo faber: the Unity of the History and Philosophy of Technology

      • Keekok Lee

      Pages 13-39

   3. Becoming through Technology

      • Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen

      Pages 40-61

4. Technology: Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Quick-Freezing Philosophy: an Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology

      • Robert Rosenberger

      Pages 65-82

   3. How to Read Technology Critically

      • David M. Kaplan

      Pages 83-99

   4. The McLuhans and Metaphysics

      • Graham Harman

      Pages 100-122

   5. The Question Concerning Thinking

      • Søren Riis

      Pages 123-145

   6. Understanding Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective

      • Iain Thomson

      Pages 146-166

5. Technology: Ethical and Political Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Human Enhancement and Personal Identity

      • Philip Brey

      Pages 169-185

   3. The Future of Humanity

      • Nick Bostrom

      Pages 186-215

   4. Technology, the Environment and the Moral Considerability of Artefacts

      • Benjamin Hale

      Pages 216-240

   5. Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology

      • Peter-Paul Verbeek

      Pages 241-263

6. Comparative Philosophy of Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265

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   2. Technology Transfer and Globalization: a New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?

      • Evan Selinger

      Pages 267-291

   3. Philosophy of Technology as Empirical Philosophy: Comparing Technological Scales in Practice

      • Casper Bruun Jensen, Christopher Gad

      Pages 292-314

7. Back Matter

   Pages 315-322

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The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of technology and science and technology studies.

• Martin Heidegger
• morality
• philosophy of technology
• science

'This latest addition to the New Waves series will be of interest to students of science and technology studies, or anyone who is concerned about technology, globalization, and the future of humanity. The collection of essays contained in this volume provides wide ranging discussions of current developments in post-phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, metaphysics, posthumanism, transhumanism, ethics, communication theory, and Heideggerian thinking about technology. It will be a useful resource for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate courses.' - Karl Rogers, University of Bath, UK and University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen

• Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  Evan Selinger

• University of Roskilde, Denmark

  Søren Riis

NICK BOSTROM is Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University, UK PHILIP BREY is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, The Netherlands CASPER BRUUN JENSEN is Assistant Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark CHRISTOPHER GAD is at the Centre for Science, Technology& Society Studies, Department of Information& Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark GRAHAM HARMAN is Associate Professor of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo. He is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands BEN HALE is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program, with a cross-appointment in the Philosophy Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA DON IHDE is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Technoscience Research Group at Stony Brook University, USA DAVID M. KAPLAN is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, USA KEEKOK LEE is Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK ROBERT ROSENBERGER is a visiting scholar at McGill University, USA IAIN THOMSON is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, USA PETER-PAUL VERBEEK is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, The Netherlands,and director of the international master program Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society

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