John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology" . . . a comprehensive canvass of Dewey's logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of history, and social thought." —Choice |
Contents
Locating Deweys Critique of Technology | 1 |
Knowing as a Technological Artifact | 17 |
Productive Skills in the Arts | 60 |
From Techne to Technology | 80 |
Theory Practice and Production | 107 |
Instruments History and Human Freedom | 140 |
Publics as Products | 166 |
Responsible Technology | 196 |
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Notes | 213 |
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abstract activities aesthetic analysis Aristotle artistic become Carl Mitcham chapter characterized classical liberalism complex concrete consequences construction context critical critique of technology cultural determinism Dewey argued Dewey calls Dewey suggested Dewey thought Dewey's critique Dewey's view effect Ellul environment essay Ethics example existence existential experience experimental fact force function further Greeks habits history of technology human Ibid idea individual inference inquiry instrumentalist intelligence interaction involved Jacques Ellul John Dewey kind knowing knowledge Langdon Winner language laws logic Marx Marxists material matter means and ends metaphor metaphysics method Mitcham nature necessity Niebuhr objects operation organization particular philosophy of technology Plato political position possible practice Pragmatism problem problematic situations productive skill progress qualities reconstruction regarded relations scientific sense Sidney Hook significance social society straight-line technical technique technological artifacts technological determinism theory things traditional treated universal propositions utilized Winner
References to this book
Life, Work and Learning: Practice in Postmodernity David Beckett,Paul J. Hager No preview available - 2002 |