Philosophy of Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. A Philosophy of Material Culture

   Action, Function, and Mind

   By Beth Preston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Arguing About Bioethics

   Edited by Stephen Holland

   Series: Arguing About Philosophy

   Arguing About Bioethics is a fresh and exciting collection of essential readings in bioethics, offering a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the field. Influential contributions from established philosophers and bioethicists, such as Peter Singer, Thomas Nagel, Judith Jarvis Thomson and...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Information Services Design

   A Design Science Approach for Sustainable Knowledge

   By Fons Wijnhoven

   Series: Routledge Studies in Organization and Systems

   Information services are economic and organizational activities for informing people. Because informing is changing rapidly under the influence of internet-technologies, this book presents in Chapter 1 fundamental notions of information and knowledge, based on philosopher C.W. Churchman’s inquiring...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Information Management

   An Informing Approach

   By Fons Wijnhoven

   Information and its management is central to modern society. Organizations – private and public, national and international – have recognized that information is a key resource and that its management is critical for success. Existing books on information management focus on the abilities of...

   Published September 20th 2009 by Routledge
5. Email and Ethics

   Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communications

   By Emma Rooksby

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   E-mail and Ethics explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication.The advent of this channel of communication has prompted a renewed investigation into the nature and value of forms of human association. Rooksby addresses these...

   Published August 21st 2002 by Routledge
6. On the Internet

   By Hubert L. Dreyfus

   Series: Routledge filosofie

   Internet is een van de eerste boeken waarin het filosofische inzicht -van Plato tot Kierkegaard - betrokken wordt op het debat over de mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden van het internet.Dreyfus laat zien dat de onstoffelijke, 'vrij zwevende' websurfer zijn oorsprong vindt in Descartes' scheiding van...

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
7. HyperReality

   Paradigm for the Third Millenium

   Edited by Nobuyoshi Terashima, John Tiffin

   'HyperReality is a technological capability like nanotechnology, human cloning and artificial intelligence. Like them, it does not as yet exist in the sense of being clearly demonstrable and publicly available. Like them, it is maturing in laboratories where the question "if" has been replaced by...

   Published October 3rd 2001 by Routledge
8. Digital McLuhan

   A Guide to the Information Millennium

   By Paul Levinson

   Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium.Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important...

   Published March 14th 2001 by Routledge
9. The Internet

   A Philosophical Inquiry

   By Gordon Graham

   The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry develops many of the themes Gordon Graham presented in his highly successful radio series, The Silicon Society. Exploring the tensions between the warnings of the Neo-Luddites and the bright optimism of the Technophiles, Graham offers the first concise and...

   Published August 31st 1999 by Routledge
10. Philosophy and Computing

    An Introduction

    By Luciano Floridi

    Philosophy and Computing explores each of the following areas of technology: the digital revolution; the computer; the Internet and the Web; CD-ROMs and Mulitmedia; databases, textbases, and hypertexts; Artificial Intelligence; the future of computing.Luciano Floridi shows us how the relationship...

    Published July 14th 1999 by Routledge