Titlebook: Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives; Paul T. Durbin Book 1991 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991 devel

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Ivan Illich’s Philosophy of Technology: Introductionn State Science, Technology, and Society Program organized a symposium on Illich’s thought to celebrate his fifth year as our colleague and in anticipation of his sixty-fifth birthday in 1991. Rustum Roy put the idea in motion by urging several members of the STS faculty and invited guests to prepar

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Ivan Illich’s ,: Fifteen Years Laterse most medical treatment. He has tried acupuncture and massage, and is not completely averse to an occasional pain reliever. He wants to “die his own death,” not a hospital death while attached to monitors and tubes. He does not want to prolong death; nor does he want to find himself swallowed up i

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Ivan Illich’s ,,, Here was the universal iconoclast creating en “epilogue tothe industrial age.” Ivan Illich began to speak: to the history seminar. Did Ihear correctly? Yes, he was discussing the water closets of VictorianLondon. That was my introduction, in 1986, to the author and the themesof ...

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The Technology of Desire: John Dewey, Social Criticism, and The Aesthetics of Human Existencee the product of the machine and technology.” Later on he adds, “We are forced to consider the relation of human ideas and ideals to the social consequences which are produced by science as an instrument. The problem involved is the greatest civilization has had to face.”. In many ways this stands a

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Ideology, Technocracy, and Knowledge Utilizationtrialized countries live in a post-ideological era. Has a postmodern pluralism in postindustrial societies eliminated ideology? Has a technocratic trend, manifest especially in the efficiency-oriented administrative procedures of large organizations, gained such a foothold that ideological factors a

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The Limited Promise of Technology Assessmenthe conceptual and organizational framework of decision making the artifacts brought about by technology are regarded as definite, isolated systems. These technological artifacts can in principle be controlled and their “behavior” predicted with precision. In a broader perspective, one could even cla

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Adam Smith and Alma Mater: Technology and the Threat to Academic Freedomet all discoveries made in the department and to exclude all funding and research that interfered with Hoechst’s proprietary position. As one observer put it: “Hoechst … purchased … control of an entire university department.… Everyone in that lab is an indentured servant to Hoechst.”.

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Science and Technology Education as Civic Educationhould be promoted in United States schools.” Prompted to act by his sense of a “national moral recession,” Hall offered his own list of “common values,” including “honesty, integrity, tolerance, the rule of law, love of knowledge, and respect for the common good.”. The idea that a national commissio