From Artifact to Habitat: Studies in the Critical Engagement of Technology

Forsideomslag
Gayle L. Ormiston
Lehigh University Press, 1990 - 221 sider
Bringing together philosophy, literary criticism and textual theory, social and political theory, and the philosophy of language and cognitive science, this collection intends to establish an interpretive framework for exploring the ubiquity nd mediacy of technology.
 

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Three Ways of BeingWith Technology
31
Technological Consciousness and the Modern Understanding of the Good Life
60
The Sacrilization of the Familiar
74
Technology and the Creation of Concepts
102
The Autonomy of Technology
117
Evidence of Responsibility?
132
Sartres Critique and the Weberian Theory of Bureaucracy
155
Necessary? Constraints on Computer Models of Natural Language Understanding
175
A Philosophical Critique
196
Select Bibliography
209
Index
215
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