Technology and the good life?
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY TODAY 17
- 1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology 19
- David Strong and Eric Higgs
- 2. Philosophy of Technology. Retrospective and
- Prospective Views 38
- Paul T Durbin
- II EVALUATING FOCAL THINGS 51
- 3. Focal Things and Focal Practices 55
- Lawrence Haworth
- 4. Technology and Nostalgia 70
- Gordon G. BrittanJr.
- 5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform
- of Technology 89
- Larry Hickman
- 6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemisse Betrachtungen:
- On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place 106
- Andrew Light
- 7. On Character and Technology 126
- Carl Mitcham
- III THEORY IN THE SERVICE OF PRACTICE 149
- 8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things 153
- Phillip R. Fandozzi
- 9. Farming as Focal Practice 166
- Paul B. Thompson
- 10. Design and the Reform of Technology:
- Venturing Out into the Open 182
- Jesse S. Tatum
- 11. Nature by Design 195
- Eric Higgs
- IV EXTENSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES 213
- 12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 219
- Diane P Michelfelder
- 13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with
- Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace 234
- Douglas Kellner
- 14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity 256
- Mora Campbell
- 15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure
- and the Entrenchment of the Device 271
- Thomas Michael Power
- 16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of
- Technology at the Crossroads 294
- Andrew Feenberg
- 17. Philosophy in the Service of Things 316
- David Strong
- V POSTSCRIPT 339
- 18. Reply to My Critics 341
- Albert Borgmann
- Afterword 371
- Index 375.