• Analytical Table of Contents.- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology.- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology.- I / Can Technological Development Be Regulated?.- Can Government Regulate Technology?.- Social Implications of Recent Technological Innovations.- Technology and Human Rights.- Technology Assessment, Facts and Values.- A Critique of Technological Determinism.- Techne and Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society.- II / Technology Assessment.- Technoaxiology: Appropriate Norms for Technology Assessment.- Comment: What Is Alternative Technology? A Reply to Professor Stanley Carpenter.- The Prospects for Technology Assessment.- Technology Assessment and the Problem of Quantification.- Forecast, Value, and the Recent Phenomenon of Non-Acceptance: The Limits of a Philosophy of Technology Assessment.- III / Responsibilities Toward Nature.- The Viability of Environmental Ethics.- Notes on Extended Responsibility and Increased Technological Power.- What Sort of Technology Permits the Language of Nature? Conditions for Controlling Nature-Domination Constitutionally.- IV / Metaphysical and Historical Issues.- The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology over Science.- The Origins of Modern Technology in Millenarianism.- The Religious and Political Origins of Modern Technology.- From the Phenomenon to the Event of Technology (A Dialectical Approach to Heidegger’s Phenomenology).- Pragmatism, Transcendental Arguments, and the Technological.- V / Directions for Philosophy of Technology.- The Cultural Character of Technology.- The Import of Social, Political, and Anthropological Considerations in an Adequate Philosophy of Technology.- Philosophy of Technology: Problems of a Philosophical Discipline.- Name Index.

'...only in the historical context can anything be truly understood. Placed within its own historical context, Philosophy and Technology provides an excellent introduction to an emerging field of academic inquiry.' Technology and Culture

• Analytical Table of Contents.- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology.- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology.- I / Can Technological Development Be Regulated?.- Can Government Regulate Technology?.- Social Implications of Recent Technological Innovations.- Technology and Human Rights.- Technology Assessment, Facts and Values.- A Critique of Technological Determinism.- Techne and Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society.- II / Technology Assessment.- Technoaxiology: Appropriate Norms for Technology Assessment.- Comment: What Is Alternative Technology? A Reply to Professor Stanley Carpenter.- The Prospects for Technology Assessment.- Technology Assessment and the Problem of Quantification.- Forecast, Value, and the Recent Phenomenon of Non-Acceptance: The Limits of a Philosophy of Technology Assessment.- III / Responsibilities Toward Nature.- The Viability of Environmental Ethics.- Notes on Extended Responsibility and Increased Technological Power.- What Sort of Technology Permits the Language of Nature? Conditions for Controlling Nature-Domination Constitutionally.- IV / Metaphysical and Historical Issues.- The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology over Science.- The Origins of Modern Technology in Millenarianism.- The Religious and Political Origins of Modern Technology.- From the Phenomenon to the Event of Technology (A Dialectical Approach to Heidegger’s Phenomenology).- Pragmatism, Transcendental Arguments, and the Technological.- V / Directions for Philosophy of Technology.- The Cultural Character of Technology.- The Import of Social, Political, and Anthropological Considerations in an Adequate Philosophy of Technology.- Philosophy of Technology: Problems of a Philosophical Discipline.- Name Index.

'...only in the historical context can anything be truly understood. Placed within its own historical context, Philosophy and Technology provides an excellent introduction to an emerging field of academic inquiry.' Technology and Culture

• Analytical Table of Contents.- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology.- Introduction: Some Questions for Philosophy of Technology.- I / Can Technological Development Be Regulated?.- Can Government Regulate Technology?.- Social Implications of Recent Technological Innovations.- Technology and Human Rights.- Technology Assessment, Facts and Values.- A Critique of Technological Determinism.- Techne and Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society.- II / Technology Assessment.- Technoaxiology: Appropriate Norms for Technology Assessment.- Comment: What Is Alternative Technology? A Reply to Professor Stanley Carpenter.- The Prospects for Technology Assessment.- Technology Assessment and the Problem of Quantification.- Forecast, Value, and the Recent Phenomenon of Non-Acceptance: The Limits of a Philosophy of Technology Assessment.- III / Responsibilities Toward Nature.- The Viability of Environmental Ethics.- Notes on Extended Responsibility and Increased Technological Power.- What Sort of Technology Permits the Language of Nature? Conditions for Controlling Nature-Domination Constitutionally.- IV / Metaphysical and Historical Issues.- The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology over Science.- The Origins of Modern Technology in Millenarianism.- The Religious and Political Origins of Modern Technology.- From the Phenomenon to the Event of Technology (A Dialectical Approach to Heidegger’s Phenomenology).- Pragmatism, Transcendental Arguments, and the Technological.- V / Directions for Philosophy of Technology.- The Cultural Character of Technology.- The Import of Social, Political, and Anthropological Considerations in an Adequate Philosophy of Technology.- Philosophy of Technology: Problems of a Philosophical Discipline.- Name Index.

'...only in the historical context can anything be truly understood. Placed within its own historical context, Philosophy and Technology provides an excellent introduction to an emerging field of academic inquiry.' Technology and Culture