Böcker i Philosophy of Technology-serien

A practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's technological culture.

Zimmerman shows that the key to the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his politics was his concern with the nature of working and production.

"Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments.... Ihde''s book breaks new ground and... makes an important debate accessible." ΓÇöRobert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perception" approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who advocate an "instrumental realist" approach to the philosophy of science.

" -Journal of Speculative Philosophy"Larry Hickman has done an exemplary job in demonstrating the relevance of John Dewey's philosophy to modern-day discussions of technology." -Ethics

The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winner - are shown to represent an empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America.

Although often absent from the considerations of philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists, the material dimension plays an important role in the practices of the sciences. This work brings together four prominent figures who make technoscience, or science embodied in its technologies, a central theme of their work.