Moralizing Technology
★★★★★
★★★★★
Regular price
€34.99
Regular price
€36.50
Sale
Sale price
€34.99
A01=Peter-Paul Verbeek
aesthetics
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
artifacts
Author_Peter-Paul Verbeek
automatic-update
bruno latour
cars
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HPQ
Category=PDA
Category=QDTQ
Category=TB
cell phones
city planning
communication
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
don ihde
embodiment
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
eq_tech-engineering
ethics
experience
foucault
genetic mutation
healthcare
heidegger
Language_English
machines
mediation
medicine
mobility
modern life
morals
mri
nonfiction
nonhuman
PA=Available
perception
philosophy
pragmatism
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
reality
science
social networks
softlaunch
technology
thing theory
ultrasound
Product details
- ISBN 9780226852935
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock
10-20 Working Days: On Backorder
Will Deliver When Available: On Pre-Order or Reprinting
We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!
Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology plays such an active role in shaping our daily actions and decisions, it is crucial, Peter-Paul Verbeek argues, that we consider the moral dimension of technology. "Moralizing Technology" offers exactly that: an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, Peter-Paul Verbeek locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines. Verbeek cites concrete examples, including some from his own life, and compellingly argues for the morality of things.
Rich and multifaceted, and sure to be controversial, "Moralizing Technology" will force us all to consider the virtue of new inventions and to rethink the rightness of the products we use every day.
Peter-Paul Verbeek is professor in the Department of Philosophy and director of the international master's program in philosophy of science, technology, and society, both at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor of philosophy at Delft University of Technology. He is the author of What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design.
Qty: