Technology and ValuesKristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools and case studies to facilitate understanding of the variety of issues emanating from the most significant developments in technology, including the effects on privacy of the widespread use of computers to store and retrieve personal information and the ethical considerations of genetic engineering. |
Contents
Ethical Studies about Technology | 3 |
12 What Is Moral Philosophy? | 11 |
13 Technology and Ethical Issues | 25 |
14 Further Reading | 33 |
Alternative Views of Technology | 35 |
21 Introduction and Overview | 37 |
22 Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology | 41 |
23 Technologies as Forms of Life | 55 |
Technology Demography and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights | 167 |
34 Economic Evaluations of Technology | 187 |
35 Sociological versus Metascientific Views of Technological Risk Assessment | 217 |
36 Further Reading | 251 |
Case Studies about Technology | 255 |
41 Introduction and Overview | 257 |
42 Engineering Design Research and Social Responsibility | 261 |
The Pinto Case | 279 |
24 The Role of Technology in Society | 71 |
The Opiate of the Intellectuals | 87 |
26 The Social Construction of Safety | 107 |
A Call for Constructive Technology Assessment | 115 |
28 Further Reading | 129 |
How to Evaluate Technology | 131 |
31 Introduction and Overview | 133 |
Autonomous Technology | 139 |
44 Computers and Privacy | 295 |
Star Wars | 327 |
46 Nuclear Technology and Radioactive Waste | 355 |
47 Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Pesticide Use | 375 |
48 Ethical Issues in Human Genome Research | 415 |
49 A Transgenic Dinner? Social and Ethical Issues in Biotechnology and Agriculture | 433 |
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