Titlebook: Democracy in a Technological Society; Langdon Winner Book 19921st edition Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992 Moral.Natur.devel

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Autonomous Technology, Democracy, and the Nimbysn a public lecture at nearby San Luis Obispo, he proposed that the community should take over the plant and make it a monument to the nuclear age. “For generations thereafter parents could take their children to the place, have leisurely picnics on the beach, and think back to the time when we finally came to our senses.”.

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Introductionhere is considerable disagreement among them about which ideas, arguments, and theoretical positions offer the most fruitful results. Their common ground is a desire to rethink the horizons of democratic politics in an age increasingly shaped by the power of technologically embodied institutions and practices.

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Book 19921st editionmbles an impressive collection of philosophers and political theorists to discuss one of the most important topics of the end of the twentieth century - the bearing of technology, in all its rarnifica­ tions, on the practice of democratic politics in the developed world. When set beside the previous

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hat the issue is highly significant, one that demands serious philosophical inquiry. The Society for Philosophy and Technology was fortunate in being able to draw this group of writers to Bordeaux, France, in 1989, along with a large number of others whose contributions to the debate could not be included her978-90-481-4210-1978-94-017-1219-4

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Mechanical Dreams: Democracy and Technological Discourse in Twentieth-Century Francethe breeder grudgingly welcome the public with a solar-heated visitors center (placed outside the security perimeter), replete with heroic, pressed-plastic photos of experts designing, building, and operating a seminal symbol of energy engineers’ expertise.

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Instrumentalists and Expressivists: Ambiguous Links between Technology and Democracynderstanding technology itself. Two strands of moral discourse, that lead to conflicting images of technology are identified here. One, traceable to Enlightenment themes, embodies political atomism and leads to an instrumental conception of technology. The second, reflective of subsequent Romantic i

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Political Morality under Radical Conditionsan nature was essentially invariant, and the unreliability of prudence lay with its depending on contingent and particular experience, which obscured (rather than precluded) our grasp of the laws of nature (the laws of prudence), as well as with its contrast to science proper (the theoretical knowle