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Doing Philosophy of Technology Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit

:	Joseph C. Pitt
:	Doing Philosophy of Technology Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9789400708204
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< >As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the fact that we are now one world? What do new forms of architecture say about whom we are? Is the design process the new epistemological paradigm? The answers to all of these is"yes" according to Joseph C. Pitt (VirginaTech).

Doing Philosophy of Technology presents an updated and integrated overview of the most important thinking from this prominent philosopher of technology. Throughout his career Joseph C. Pitt has defended the view that to say anything meaningful about the value of a technology one must know something about that technology and how it functions in the world. This starting point leads naturally to a pragmatist philosophical stance, since it is the real world consequences of introducing a technology that must be the basis for any further normative judgements.

In the book we find an extended set of arguments that challenge the idea that there are eternal philosophical issues that transcend the impacts that technologies make on human beings and their world. Rather, it is claimed that as our technologies transform our world they transform us and the kinds of questions we find important to answer.

	Introduction	7
	Doing Philosophy of Technology	7
	References	14
	Contents	15
	Part I Society, Ethics and Values	19
	1 Human Beings as Technological Artifacts	20
	1.1 John Dewey and the Aims of Education	21
	1.2 The Design Process	22
	1.3 Students as Self-Designers	23
	1.4 Active Versus Passive, Redux	24
	2 Technology and the Objectivity of Values	28
	2.1 Introduction	28
	2.2 Types of Judgments	30
	2.3 Epistemic Values as Objective Values	31
	2.4 Problems with Ethics	34
	2.5 The Methodology of Technological Decision-Making	36
	References	38
	3 Anticipating the Unknown	39
	3.1 Introduction	39
	3.2 Pragmatism	40
	3.3 Ethics	41
	3.4 Philosophy and Pragmatism	43
	3.5 The Law of Unintended Consequences (LUC)	45
	3.6 Way of Going and the Good Life	46
	3.7 Common Sense Pragmatism	47
	3.8 Common Sense Pragmatism as an Ethical Theory	47
	3.9 Common Sense Pragmatism, Ethics, and Nanotechnology	49
	3.10 A Different Approach	50
	References	54
	4 Dont Talk to Me	55
	Part II Methodological Issues	59
	5 Against the Perennial	60
	5.1 Continents	60
	5.2 Tectonics	61
	5.3 Meaning	64
	References	68
	6 Philosophical Methodology, Technologies, and the Transformation of Knowledge	69
	6.1 Introduction	69
	6.2 Whats Wrong with the Philosophy of Technology?	70
	6.3 The Aim of Philosophy	70
	6.4 Changing Knowledge	72
	6.5 Galileo and Mathematics	74
	6.6 Galileo and the Telescope	77
	6.7 Space and Beyond	78
	6.8 Standard Conditions	82
	6.9 Conclusions	82
	References	85
	7 Working the Natural/Artificial Distinction	86
	References	96
	8 Discovery, Telescopes, and Progress	97
	8.1 Introduction	97
	8.2 Discovery	99
	8.3 Definitions	100
	8.4 Galileo and the Telescope	102
	8.5 Sicilian Realism and Technological Infrastructures	105
	References	106
	9 Explaining Change in Science	107
	References	113
	10 The Dilemma of Case Studies	115
	References	122
	11 Technological Explanation	123
	11.1 Relevance	124
	11.2 Technological Versus Scientific Explanation	124
	11.2.1 The DN Theory	125
	11.2.2 Other Theories of Explanation	126
	11.3 Questions and Internal and External Audiences	128
	11.4 Terminology	129
	11.5 Systems	129
	11.5.1 System and Design	132
	11.5.2 System and Function	133
	11.5.3 System and Structure	133
	11.6 The Social	135
	11.7 Explaining Failures	136
	11.7.1 The Challenger Example	137
	11.7.2 The 2000 US Presidential Election Example	138
	11.7.3 The Ladbroke Grove Railroad Crash Example	138
	11.8 Conclusions and Objections	139
	11.9 Failure, Success, and Symmetry	139
	References	141
	Part III Design and Engineering	143
	12 Successful Design in Engineering and Architecture	144
	12.1 Engineering Design	144
	12.2 Architectural Design	146
	12.3 The Role of Creativity	149
	12.4 Creativity and Freedom	152
	12.5 Engineering and Creativity	152
	12.6 Conclusion: Architectural Failures and Successes	154
	References	157
	13 Design Criteria in Architecture	158
	13.1 Introduction	158
	13.2 Architectural Design and Philosophy of Technology	159
	13.3 James and Common Sense	160
	13.4 A Common Sense Proposal	161
	13.5 Common Sense Design	163
	13.6 Conclusion -- Graves Reconsidered and the Mystery of the Guggenheim Finally Solved	164
	References	166
	14 Philosophy, Engineering, and the Sciences	167
	References	173
	15 What Engineers Know	174
	15.1 A Pragmatic Theory of Knowledge	175
	15.2 Scientific Knowledge	175
	15.3 Engineering Knowledge	177
	15.4 Philosophical Problems	181
	References	183
	16 Design Mistakes	184
	References	195
	Part IV Nano	196
	17 The Epistemology of the Very Small	197
	17.1 Introduction	197
	17.2 Seeing the Unobservable	197
	17.3 The Role of Metaphor	198
	17.4 Learning to See Through Microscopes	199
	17.5 Learning to See with Electron Microscopes	201
	17.6 The Nano Scale and Nano Technology	203
	References	205
	18 When Is an Image Not an Image?	206
	References	213
	19 Small Talk: Nanotechnology and Metaphor	214
	19.1 Introduction	214
	19.2 An Example of an Early Use of Metaphor to Facilitate Theory Change	215
	19.3 NANO -- Do Mixed Metaphors and a Lot of Mathematics Constitute a Proof?	217
	References	221
	Index	222