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Technological Rationality
In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 189–194 (2009)
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technological rationality technology and technological systems ‐ embedded in variety of social, political and economic contexts idea of technological rationality ‐ existence of core set of characteristics running through types of action Habermas's conception of communicative rationality ‐ providing a backdrop for delimiting contours of technological rationality technology itself as a social phenomenon ‐ embodying at once a distinctive cognitive style or orientation
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