Theory of Technology

Martin Ryder
University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education

Theory of Technology

Studies of human artifacts as cause and consequence of socio-cultural development.

Resources

Technology (Wikipedia)
Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
Essays on the Philosophy of Technology (Compiled by Frank Edler)
Technology and Society (National School Boards Foundation)
Science and Engineering Encyclopedia (Charlie Hawkins, Dirac Delta Consultants)
Victorian Technology (George Landow)
Open Courses from M.I.T.
Science Technology and Society
Phil Agre home page
Stanford Humanities Review
Philtech Portal (University of Twente)
International Journal of Technoethics

Readings

Agre (1995) the soul gained and lost: artificial intelligence as a philosophical project
Charles Babbage (1832) Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (McMaster University)
Beckman (2000) Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics
Wiebe Bijker
- Democratization of Technology, Who are the Experts?
Blacker (1994) Philosophy of Technology and Education
Roger Blumberg (2003) Technology and Contemporary Life (course syllabus)
Albert Borgmann
- Borgmann profile (Wikipedia)
- Borgmann sketch (Richard Veryard)
- On Humans and Machines (Borgmann interview by Katherine Hayles)
- Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (1984)
  - notes and reflections (Stephen Talbott)
- Crossing the Postmodern Divide (1992)
  - pulisher's announcement (Univ of Chicago Press)
  - review (by Douglas Kellner) pdf
  - review (by Christopher Lasch)
- Holding On To Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (1999)
  - Introduction
  - review by Douglas Kellner pdf
  - review by Sundeep Sahay
  - review by Eliseo Fernandez
  - review by Gregory Raschke
  - review (Mark Edwards)
- Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
- Tripathi (2003) Coping with Innovative Technology: Albert Borgmann on how does technology change learning and teaching in formal and informal education. pdf
Brey Philosophy of Technology Meets Social Constructivism
Chafy (1997) Exploring the Intellectual Foundation of Technology Education: From Condorcet to Dewey Daniel Chandler
- Technological or Media Determinism
- Engagement with media: Shaping and being shaped
Hubert Dreyfus
- Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault
- Heidegger and Foucault on the Subject, Agency and Practices
Paul Durbin
- Durbin Advances in Philosophy of Technology? Comparative Perspectives
Ebersole (1995) Media Determinism in Cyberspace
Edler (2000) On Contemporary Philosophies of Technology
Eldred (1995) Capital and Technology: Marx and Heidegger
Jacques Ellul
- Ellul profile (Wikipedia)
- Ellul profile (Regent University)
- Ellul profile (Samuel Ebersole)
- Ellul profile (Victor Shepherd)
- The Technological Society (1954)
  - Exerpts (courtesy John Acker)
- Present and the Future
- Technology Quotes (courtesy, Howard Rheingold)
Andrew Feenberg
- Feenberg profile (U.C. Berkeley)
- Feenberg Home Page (Simon Fraser Univ)
- Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of Technology (2004)
  - preface
- Questioning Technology (Routledge 1999)
  - review (by Douglas Kellner) pdf
  pdf mirror
- Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory (1995)
- Feenberg and Barney, Community in the Digital Age (2004)
  - review (by Arun Kumar Tripathi)
- Pragmatism and the Critical Theory of Technology (2003)
Fischer (2007) Taylorism and Fordism
Gendreau (1995) The Cautionary Ontological Approach To Technology of Gabriel Marcel
Gregory (1998) Heidegger On Traditional Language And Technological Language
Güzeldere and Franchi (1995) mindless mechanisms,mindful constructions
Justin Hall (1998) Technology and Citizen Choice: Priorities and Responsibility for Tool Selection how do people evaluate and implement technologies? who is responsible?
Havas (1996) Contradictions in Principles of Ethics and Contemporary Technology
Ihde (1996) Philosophy of Technology, 1975-1995
Ihde (2003) pdf
Ihde (1996) Whole Earth Measurements
Imamichi, Miaoyang, and Fangtong (eds) The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture
Andrew Jamison (1999) The Dialectics of Sustainable Technology
Johnston, Lee and McGregor (1995) Engineering as Captive Discourse
Douglas Kellner
- Kellner Home Page
- Intellectuals and New Technologies
- NewTechnologies and Alienation: Some Critical Reflections (2003) pdf
Bruno LaTour
Alan Liu The Idea of Technology
Massumi (1995) Interface and Active Space: Human-Machine Design
Matthews The Metaphysics of Appearance: Heidegger's Critique of Technology
Carl Mitcham
- Mitcham profile (European Graduate School)
- Mitcham Home Page (Colorado School of Mines)
- Mitcham Home Page (European Graduate School)
- Thinking Through Technology (review by Richard Deitrich)
- Notes Toward a Philosophy of Meta-Technology (1995)
- Do Artifacts Have Dual Natures? Two Points of Commentary on the Delft Project (2002)
Lewis Mumford
Nieto, Neotropica, and Durbin (1995) Sustainable Development and Philosophies of Technology
,a href=http://www.infomotions.com/serials/jot/jot-v3n01-pannabecker-technological.txt>Pannabecker (1991) Technological Impacts and Determinism in Technology Education: Alternate Metaphors from Social Constructivism
Pannabecker (2005) For a History of Technology Education: Contexts, Systems, and Narratives
Poser (1998) On Structural Differences Between Science and Engineering
Rammert (1999) Relations that Constitute TechnoLogy and Media that Make a Difference: Toward a Social Pragmatic Theory of Technicization
Scharff and Dusek (2003) Philosophy of Technology
- look inside (Amazon.com)
Simpson (1995) Technology, Time and the Conversations of Modernity
- review by Douglas Kellner
- Simpson home page
Thompson (2000) Thinking About Thinking About Technology
Thorstein Veblen
Paul Virilio
- Virilio profile (Wikipedia)
- Virilio profile (Mediamatic)
- Virilio interview (by Luisa Futoransky, 1999)
- Virilio interview (John Armitage, 2000)
- Virilio interview (Jérôme Sans)
- The Information Bomb (1998) (Google Book Search) mirror
- Open Sky book announcement (Metro Publishing)
Max Weber (1864-1920)
- Weber profile (Wikipedia)
- Weber profile (from Coser, 1977; courtesy Larry Ridener)
- Rationalization (Wikipedia)
- Gingrich (1999) Notes on Rationalization and Bureaucracy
- Allen (2004) Authority and Rationality - Max Weber pdf
- Boje Weber's Model of Transaction and Transformation Leadership Authority
- Iron Cage (Wikipedia)
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905, Trans. Talcott Parsons, Anthony Giddens, 19930) (Courtesy, Univ of Virginia)
- Grosack (2006) Revisiting the Iron Cage: New Insights in Institutions, Theory from Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism pdf
Langdon Winner
- Winner Home Page
- Winner profile (Wikipedia)
- Winner profile (David Mathias)
- Winner profile (Ireland's Internet Future)
- Winner Weblog: Technopolis
- Are Humans Obsolete?
- mythinformation
- Science Policy and the Push for Nanotechnology (2003)
- Complexity, Trust and Terror (2002)
- Enthusiasm and Concern: Results of a New Technology Poll (2000)
- Silicon Valley mystery house (1999) (Summary by Andrew Wood)
- Who will be in Cyberspace> (1995)
- CyberLibertarian Myths and the Prospects for Community (1997)
- The Handwriting on the Wall: Resisting Technoglobalism's Assault on Education (1997)
- Computers and Hope in an Urban Ark (1997)
- How Technomania Is Overtaking the Millennium (1997)
- The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (1986)
  - review (by Scott London)
- Technology and Social Theory (course syllabus)

Concepts and Names Related to the Theory of Technology

Courses

Technology and Contemporary Life (Roger Blumberg)

corollary sites

All links verified February 01, 2010.

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