Philosophy of Technology Books

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1. Arguing About Bioethics

   Edited by Stephen Holland

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-47633-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology: Autonomic Computing and Transformations of Human Agency

   Edited by Mireille Hildebrandt, Antoinette Rouvroy

   The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-technical infrastructures it supports. The development of autonomic computing...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-59323-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-55215-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Email and Ethics: Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communications

   By Emma Rooksby

   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...

   2002 | 978-0-415-28281-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   On the Internet

   By Hubert L. Dreyfus

   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...

   2002 | 978-0-415-27751-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2001 | 978-0-415-26104-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2001 | 978-0-415-24991-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   1999 | 978-0-415-19749-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. 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...

   1999 | 978-0-415-18025-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Questioning Technology

    By Andrew Feenberg

    In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial...

    1999 | 978-0-415-19755-7 | Paperback (Routledge)