Technology and values

(Essential readings)Section One: Theoretical Reflections on Technology: Part I: Introductory Considerations of Technology (1. Toward a Philosophy of Technology: Hans Jonas 2. Four Philosophies of Technology: Alan R. Drengson 3. The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values: William W.Lowrance 4. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Bruno Latour 5. Technology and Ethics: Kristen Shrader-Frechette). - Part II: Considering the Autonomy of Technology (6. The Autonomy of Technology: Jacques Ellul 7. Artifice and Order: Langdon Winner 8. The Autonomy of Technology: Joseph Pitt). - Part III: Existential and Phenomenological Considerations (9. The Question Concerning Technology: Martin Heidegger 10. Man the Technician: José Ortega y Gasset 11. Focal Things and Practices: Albert Borgmann 12. A Phenomenology of Technics: Don Ihde). - Part IV: Critical Theory (13. The New Forms of Control: Herbert Marcuse 14. Technical Progress and the Social Life-World: Jürgen Habermas 15. The Critical Theory of Technology: Andrew Feenberg). - Part V: Pragmatic Considerations (16. Science and Society: John Dewey 17. Technology and Community Life: Larry Hickman). - Part VI: Feminist Considerations (18. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentith Century: Donna Haraway 19. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice: Diane P. Michelfelder) Section Two: Applied Reflections on Technology and Value: Part VII: Technology and Value in Everyday Life (20. The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary: John McDermott 21: Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving?: Judy Wajcman 22. Some Meanings of Automobiles: Douglas Browning). - Part VIII: Values and BioTechnologies (23. How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong: Daniel Callahan 24. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral?: Laura M. Purdy 25. Preventing a Brave New World: Leon Kass 26: Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis 27. Food for Thought: Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown 28. Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops: Paul Thompson). - Part IX: Urban Values (29. The Highway and the City: Lewis Mumford 30. Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical Choices: Jessica Woolliams 31. The Local History of Space: Steven Moore 32. Community: Joseph Grange 33. Urban Ecological Citizenship: Andrew Light). - Part X: Environmental Values (34. Why Mow?: Michael Pollan 35. Technology: Lori Gruen 36. Environment, Technology, and Ethics: Rajni Kothari 37. The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic: J. Baird Callicott 38. Deep Ecology: Bill Devall and George Sessions 39. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique: Ramachandra Guha 40. Just Garbage: Peter S. Wenz). - Part XI: Immediate Challenges: Information Technologies, Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values (41. Philosophy of Information Technology: Carl Mitcham 42. Into the Electronic Millennium: Sven Birkerts 43. Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer: Wendell Berry 44. In the Age of the Smart Machine: Shoshana Zuboff 45. The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid 46. The Quest For Universal Usability: Ben Shneiderman). - Bibliography