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  1. Scientific and Technological Progress, Economics and Social Development.N. P. Fedorenko - 1980 - In E. P. Velikhov, Dzhermen Mikhaĭlovich Gvishiani & S. R. Mikulinskiĭ (eds.), Science, technology, and the future: Soviet scientists analysis of the problems of and prospects for the development of science and technology and their role in society. New York: Pergamon Press. pp. 51.
     
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  2. Scientific and technological-progress and humanism.H. Horz - 1977 - Filosoficky Casopis 25 (6):861-873.
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  3. Attributing scientific and technological progress: The case of holography.Sean F. Johnston - 2005 - History and Technology 21:367-392.
    Holography, the three-dimensional imaging technology, was portrayed widely as a paradigm of progress during its decade of explosive expansion 1964–73, and during its subsequent consolidation for commercial and artistic uses up to the mid 1980s. An unusually seductive and prolific subject, holography successively spawned scientific insights, putative applications and new constituencies of practitioners and consumers. Waves of forecasts, associated with different sponsors and user communities, cast holography as a field on the verge of success—but with the dimensions of (...)
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  4. Working-class and scientific and technological-progress.J. Vlacil - 1987 - Filosoficky Casopis 35 (3):306-319.
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  5. The working-class, scientific and technological-progress, and socialism.Pd Nikolic - 1984 - Filosoficky Casopis 32 (3):345-361.
     
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    Eternal values: Significance of creativity of A.S. Pushkin in the age of scientific and technological progress.M. V. Moiseenko - 2019 - RUDN Journal of Philosophy 23 (3):356-362.
    The purpose of the article is to study the importance of Pushkin's work in the age of scientific and technological progress, to identify and analyze the moral values that accompany the work and personality of Alexander Pushkin and are particularly relevant to our time. The article discusses the moral values of honor and dignity, the ratio between good and evil, concepts of duty, justice, love and friendship, happiness, freedom, creativity, patriotism, national idea, peoples’ friendship and the problem (...)
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    Management of Scientific and Technological Progress.J. M. Gvishiani - 1978 - Dialectics and Humanism 5 (4):89-92.
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    The Devil in Technologies: Russian Orthodox Neoconservatism Versus Scientific and Technological Progress.Marcin Skladanowski - 2019 - Zygon 54 (1):46-65.
    One of the interesting aspects of Russian self‐definition in opposition to the West is its attitude toward Western science. Russian distrust of scientific and technological progress in the West is an important force shaping contemporary Russian identity. This article touches on these issues in four parts. The first section characterizes two main conservative circles that are active in today's disputes over the significance of scientific development for Russian identity. The second demonstrates certain Russian contemporary concerns related (...)
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    What Kind of Future is Humanity Consigned to by the Scientific and Technological Progress?Alexander L. Nikiforov & Никифоров Александр Леонидович - 2023 - RUDN Journal of Philosophy 27 (1):123-137.
    In recent decades, more and more works have appeared, the authors of which are trying to predict possible scenarios for the future development of mankind. This article discusses 5 such scenarios: F. Fukuyama believes that all peoples and countries of the globe in the XXI century will develop in the direction of building a liberal-democratic society; Representatives of the Club of Rome in their latest report, based on statistical data of industrial development, substantiate the idea that by the middle of (...)
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  10. On the relation of social and scientific and technological-progress.J. Netopilik - 1982 - Filosoficky Casopis 30 (2):196-226.
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  11. Protection of human rights: in the light of scientific and technological progress in biology and medicine: proceedings of a round table conference organized by CIOMS with the assistance of Unesco and Who: Who headquarters, Geneva, 14, 15, and 16 November 1973 = Protection des droits de l'homme: compte tenu des progres..Simon Btesh (ed.) - 1974 - Geneva: the World Health Organization on behalf of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences.
     
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    Scientific and technical progress and the peace movement.Jaroslav Purš - 1980 - Prague: Institute of Czechoslovak and World History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
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    Scientific-Technological Progress in Agriculture and Questions of Socialization to Work Attitudes and of Vocational Guidance in the Rural School.I. G. Tkachenko - 1976 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 15 (1):66-68.
    The rural general, work, polytechnic school holds a prominent place in the life of the modern socialist village. As one of the sources from which collective and state farms get trained personnel, equipment operators, for example, the rural school is meant to train a comprehensively developed younger generation capable of creatively applying to its work the latest achievements of science, engineering, and progressive technology and of presenting models of a communist attitude toward work.
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    Scientific-Technological Progress and the Development of the Individual Under Socialism.I. I. Kravchenko & V. S. Markov - 1972 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 11 (1):48-69.
    As noted in the Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the Twenty-Fourth Party Congress, presented by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Comrade L. I. Brezhnev, the economy is taking on an entirely new scale of operations at the present stage. The basis of our economic power is coming to be industry with its numerous branches and a socialist agriculture organized on a large scale, advanced science, and skilled corps of workers, experts in (...)
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  15. Art and technology, the right of expression to define itself through progress.Dimitrios Dacrotsis - 2022 - Days of Art in Greece 13 (Days of art in Greece):90-121.
    We are all privy, or rather participants, in an unprecedented scientific and technological outbreak whose rules have been taken in even by cultures ideologically deviating from the standards of the West, even though this revolution started there. So, we cannot refer to a heterogeneity of cultures or to conflicts, whether constant, manifest or underlying, since the theoretical mind and its logical reasoning have been universally accepted. Είμαστε όλοι κοινωνοί ή μάλλον συμμέτοχοι, μιας άνευ προηγουμένου επιστημονικής και τεχνολογικής έκρηξης, (...)
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    Science and Technology, Ideology and Politics in the Usa: (Toward an Analysis of the Evolution of Complex Scientific-Technological Projects in the USA).G. S. Khozin - 1973 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 12 (3):50-70.
    In the complex diversity of processes and phenomena associated with the revolution in science and technology and characteristic of the functioning of capitalism in the 1960s, a new and at the same time highly characteristic phenomenon is to be seen. This is the complex scientific-technological project, which made its appearance at the leading edge of scientific and engineering progress. Maximum national technical, economic, and scientific potential is concentrated on its implementation, as are the latest achievements (...)
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    Encyclopedia of Technological Progress, 2nd Edition: A Systematic Overview of Theories and Opinions.Johan Hendrik van der Pot - 2004 - Eburon Publishers, Delft.
    The scientific advances made in the last two centuries have drastically improved the quality and structure of human existence. Exploring the history of that technological progress, and the numerous and complex elements that propelled its development, the _Encyclopedia of Technological Progress_ attempts to comprehensively classify the theories and hypotheses proposed in modern human history on the effects, meaning, and control of these advances. This massive and learned reference work draws on a wide range of disciplines in (...)
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  18. Rethinking Responsibility in Science and Technology.Fiorella Battaglia, Nikil Mukerji & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.) - 2014 - Pisa University Press.
    The idea of responsibility is deeply embedded into the “lifeworld” of human beings and not subject to change. However, the empirical circumstances in which we act and ascribe responsibility to one another are subject to change. Science and technology play a great part in this transformation process. Therefore, it is important for us to rethink the idea, the role and the normative standards behind responsibility in a world that is constantly being transformed under the influence of scientific and (...) progress. This volume is a contribution to that joint societal effort. (shrink)
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    Science and Technology from Global and Historical Perspectives.Bahattin Karagözoğlu - 2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book provides science and technology ethos to a literate person. It starts with a rather detailed treatment of basic concepts in human values, educational status and domains of education, development of science and technology and their contributions to the welfare of society. It describes ways and means of scientific progresses and technological advancements with their historical perspectives including scientific viewpoints of contributing scientists and technologists. The technical, social, and cultural dimensions are surveyed in relation to acquisition (...)
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  20. Place of science in scientific technological and social progress.J. Netopilik - 1978 - Filosoficky Casopis 26 (5):657-688.
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    Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress.Nicholas Rescher - 1980 - University of Pittsburgh Press.
    Nicholas Rescher examines a number of controversial social issues using the intellectual tools of the philosopher, in an attempt to clarify some of the complexities of modern society, technology, and economics. He elucidates his thoughts on topics such as: whether technological progress leads to greater happiness; environmental problems; endangered species, costly scientific research on the frontiers of knowledge, medical/moral issues on the preservation of life; and crime and justice, among others.
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    A New Understanding of the Technological Progress in the Modern Philosophy of Technology.Vitaly G. Gorokhov - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 48:25-31.
    In the 17th-19th centuries human society formed the understanding of scientific and technological progress as continuous improvement of society and nature on the basis of the growing capacity of scientific knowledge of the world. This belief in continuous scientific and technological progress, absolutisation of a value-free scientific research, illusion of actual «creatability» of the world on the basis of the obtained knowledge resulted in emergence of a scientific religion, based mostly on (...)
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    Nicholas Rescher on Scientific Progress: Science in the Face of Limited Cognitive and Technological Resources.Theodor Leiber & Roland Wagner-Döbler - 2008 - In Robert Almeder (ed.), Rescher Studies: A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher. De Gruyter. pp. 363-400.
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    Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment.Amnon H. Eden & James H. Moor (eds.) - 2012 - Springer.
    Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of forecasts about the profound, disruptive impact that is likely to result from further progress in these areas. Many commentators however doubt the scientific rigor of these forecasts, rejecting them as speculative (...)
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    Shackling the shoulders of giants: A report on excerpts from the national Academies’ symposium on the role of scientific and technical data and information in the public domain, Washington, DC, sEptember 5–6, 2002.John S. Gardenier - 2003 - Science and Engineering Ethics 9 (3):425-434.
    This paper informally summarizes a two-day symposium held at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., September 5–6, 2002. The issue was to what extent the progress of science and societal capacity for continued technological innovation are threatened by excessive protection of intellectual property. Excessive protection creates disadvantages not only for scientists and inventors but also for educators/students and for librarians/clientele. Speakers from a variety of disciplines and institutions agreed unanimously that scientific and technological (...)
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  26. On the social function of scientific-technological progress.Gunter Krober - 1979 - In János Farkas (ed.), Sociology of science and research. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 119.
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    The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment.A. Eden, J. Søraker, J. Moor & E. Steinhart (eds.) - 2012 - Springer.
    Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of forecasts about the profound, disruptive impact that is likely to result from further progress in these areas. Many commentators however doubt the scientific rigor of these forecasts, rejecting them as speculative (...)
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    Science, technology, and society: new perspectives and directions.Todd L. Pittinsky (ed.) - 2019 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects of today's advances in science and technology have on issues ranging from government policy-making to how we see the differences between men and women. The chapters investigate how invention and innovation really take place, how science differs from competing forms of knowledge, and how science and technology could contribute more to the greater good of humanity. For instance, should there be legal restrictions on 'immoral inventions'? A key theme that runs (...)
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  29. Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented Empiricism.Nicholas Maxwell - 2017 - St. Paul, USA: Paragon House.
    "Understanding Scientific Progress constitutes a potentially enormous and revolutionary advancement in philosophy of science. It deserves to be read and studied by everyone with any interest in or connection with physics or the theory of science. Maxwell cites the work of Hume, Kant, J.S. Mill, Ludwig Bolzmann, Pierre Duhem, Einstein, Henri Poincaré, C.S. Peirce, Whitehead, Russell, Carnap, A.J. Ayer, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, Nelson Goodman, Bas van Fraassen, and numerous others. He lauds Popper for (...)
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  30. Science, technology, and responsibility.Fiorella Battaglia, Nikil Mukerji & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.) - 2014 - Pisa University Press.
    The empirical circumstances in which human beings ascribe responsibility to one another are subject to change. Science and technology play a great part in this transformation process. Therefore, it is important for us to rethink the idea, the role and the normative standards behind responsibility in a world that is constantly changing under the influence of scientific and technological progress. This volume is a contribution to that joint societal effort.
     
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    Value Orientations of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in USA and China: A Philosophical Analysis.Антон Максимович Савельев, Денис Александрович Журенков & Артем Евгеньевич Пойкин - 2022 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 65 (1):124-143.
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 21st century is no longer perceived as a purely technological phenomenon, more and more becoming a social and humanitarian phenomenon that develops in a complex context of cultural, value, philosophical, and ethical aspects of human life. The impact of AIrelated technologies on contemporary society is still difficult to assess fully, which does not prevent enthusiastic researchers and political leaders from attempting to define a value framework that will ensure the use of AI for societal (...)
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    Technology and Scientific Progress.N. Rescher - 1983 - der 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 1:397-401.
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    Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism.David Cecchetto - 2013 - Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press.
    _Humanesis_ critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human–technology coupling is explained. Specifically, it interrogates three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto’s investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly mobilized against. His study frontally desublimates the previously unseen presumptions that underlie each of the three thought lines and offers incisive appraisals of the work of three prominent (...)
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    The Importance of Teaching Science and Technology in Early Education Levels in an Emerging Economy.Roberto Ibarra, Roumen Nedev, Eduardo Cabrera Cordova, Juan Sevilla Garcia, Michael Schorr Wienner, Benjamín Valdez Salas, Lidia Vargas Osuna & Maria Amparo Oliveros Ruiz - 2014 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 34 (3-4):87-93.
    In the context of technological dissemination sessions aimed at prospective students at the Polytechnic University of Baja California in the city of Mexicali, Baja California, the importance of engineering and its role in scientific and technological progress was stressed, as well as its role in scientific and technological progress as drivers of economic development in the region. A group of 2,154 students from 20 different institutions of public high school education answered a survey (...)
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    Гуманістичний тип раціональності як чинник формування коеволюційно-інноваційної стратегії сталого розвитку людства.Mykola Kozlovets, Liudmyla Horokhova & Viktoriia Melnychuk - 2019 - Гуманітарний Вісник Запорізької Державної Інженерної Академії 77:47-68.
    Topicality of the study lies in the fact that modern rationality as a significant achievement of civilization is simultaneously becoming a real threat to the mankind.Science, undertaking a humanistic mission, at the same time dehumanizes what it was aimed at: the system of values, education and culture.Acquired knowledge is often used to destroy the environment and humanity, and not for progress and well-being.Disruption of the harmony of natural, social and spiritual, underestimation of the anthropocentric dimension of scientific rationality (...)
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    Technology ethics of N. Fedorov as a successor of nietzsche’s idea of self-overcoming: The upbringing of the Superman and the science.A. A. Kosorukova - 2019 - RUDN Journal of Philosophy 23 (3):363-372.
    The article is devoted to the consideration of the general principles of understanding of human development by N. F. Fedorov and F. Nietzsche. The article considers Fedorov’s philosophy of the common task to be a partial continuation of the general contours of Nietzsche's thought about the will to power. Nietzsche’s position is viewed through the prism of the concept of the will to power as a vital force overcoming the nihilistic devaluation of values. The concept of Fedorov is considered, first (...)
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  37. EXPLORING PARALLELS BETWEEN ISLAMIC THEOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGICAL METAPHORS.Ammar Younas & Yi Zeng - manuscript
    As the scope of innovative technologies is expanding, their implications and applications are increasingly intersecting with various facets of society, including the deeply rooted traditions of religion. This paper embarks on an exploratory journey to bridge the perceived divide between advancements in technology and faith, aiming to catalyze a dialogue between the religious and scientific communities. The former often views technological progress through a lens of conflict rather than compatibility. By utilizing a technology-centric perspective, we draw metaphorical (...)
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  38. Measuring progress in robotics: Benchmarking and the ‘measure-target confusion’.Vincent C. Müller - 2019 - In Fabio Bonsignorio, John Hallam, Elena Messina & Angel P. Del Pobil (eds.), Metrics of sensory motor coordination and integration in robots and animals. Springer. pp. 169-179.
    While it is often said that robotics should aspire to reproducible and measurable results that allow benchmarking, I argue that a focus on benchmarking can be a hindrance for progress in robotics. The reason is what I call the ‘measure-target confusion’, the confusion between a measure of progress and the target of progress. Progress on a benchmark (the measure) is not identical to scientific or technological progress (the target). In the past, several academic (...)
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    Technology and Ethics for Engineering Students.Roli Varma - 2000 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 20 (3):217-224.
    Many engineering schools still do not allocate enough resources to the process of understanding the social and ethical dimensions of scientific and technological activities. This article argues that engineering curriculum in the United States should include courses that use theories and concepts from humanities and social sciences to study issues confronting the engineering profession. On the theoretical front, engineering students need to understand favorable and unfavorable consequences of technology-based progress, social and political qualities of technological designs, (...)
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    Environmental degradation and the ambiguous social role of science and technology.Leo Marx - 1992 - Journal of the History of Biology 25 (3):449-468.
    Recent anxieties about the deterioration of the global environment have had the effect of intensifying the ambiguity that surrounds the social roles of scientists and engineers. This has happened not merely, as suggested at the outset, because the environmental crisis has made their roles more conspicuous. Nor is it merely because recent disasters have alerted us to new, or hitherto unrecognized, social consequences of using the latest science-based technologies. What also requires recognition is that ideas about the social role of (...)
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  41. The ethics of big data: current and foreseeable issues in biomedical contexts.Brent Daniel Mittelstadt & Luciano Floridi - 2016 - Science and Engineering Ethics 22 (2):303–341.
    The capacity to collect and analyse data is growing exponentially. Referred to as ‘Big Data’, this scientific, social and technological trend has helped create destabilising amounts of information, which can challenge accepted social and ethical norms. Big Data remains a fuzzy idea, emerging across social, scientific, and business contexts sometimes seemingly related only by the gigantic size of the datasets being considered. As is often the case with the cutting edge of scientific and technological (...), understanding of the ethical implications of Big Data lags behind. In order to bridge such a gap, this article systematically and comprehensively analyses academic literature concerning the ethical implications of Big Data, providing a watershed for future ethical investigations and regulations. Particular attention is paid to biomedical Big Data due to the inherent sensitivity of medical information. By means of a meta-analysis of the literature, a thematic narrative is provided to guide ethicists, data scientists, regulators and other stakeholders through what is already known or hypothesised about the ethical risks of this emerging and innovative phenomenon. Five key areas of concern are identified: informed consent, privacy, ownership, epistemology and objectivity, and ‘Big Data Divides’ created between those who have or lack the necessary resources to analyse increasingly large datasets. Critical gaps in the treatment of these themes are identified with suggestions for future research. Six additional areas of concern are then suggested which, although related have not yet attracted extensive debate in the existing literature. It is argued that they will require much closer scrutiny in the immediate future: the dangers of ignoring group-level ethical harms; the importance of epistemology in assessing the ethics of Big Data; the changing nature of fiduciary relationships that become increasingly data saturated; the need to distinguish between ‘academic’ and ‘commercial’ Big Data practices in terms of potential harm to data subjects; future problems with ownership of intellectual property generated from analysis of aggregated datasets; and the difficulty of providing meaningful access rights to individual data subjects that lack necessary resources. Considered together, these eleven themes provide a thorough critical framework to guide ethical assessment and governance of emerging Big Data practices. (shrink)
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    Science, Providence, and Progress at the Great Exhibition.Geoffrey Cantor - 2012 - Isis 103 (3):439-459.
    ABSTRACT The Great Exhibition of 1851 is generally interpreted as a thoroughly secular event that celebrated progress in science, technology, and industry. In contrast to this perception, however, the exhibition was viewed by many contemporaries as a religious event of considerable importance. Although some religious commentators were highly critical of the exhibition and condemned the display of artifacts in the Crystal Palace as giving succor to materialism, others incorporated science and technology into their religious frameworks. Drawing on sermons, tracts, (...)
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  43. The Vulnerable World Hypothesis.Nick Bostrom - 2018
    Scientific and technological progress might change people’s capabilities or incentives in ways that would destabilize civilization. For example, advances in DIY biohacking tools might make it easy for anybody with basic training in biology to kill millions; novel military technologies could trigger arms races in which whoever strikes first has a decisive advantage; or some economically advantageous process may be invented that produces disastrous negative global externalities that are hard to regulate. This paper introduces the concept of (...)
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    Human Rights and the Challenges of Science and Technology: Commentary on Meier et al. “Translating the Human Right to Water and Sanitation into Public Policy Reform” and Hall et al. “The Human Right to Water: The Importance of Domestic and Productive Water Rights”.Stephen P. Marks - 2014 - Science and Engineering Ethics 20 (4):869-875.
    The expansion of the corpus of international human rights to include the right to water and sanitation has implications both for the process of recognizing human rights and for future developments in the relationships between technology, engineering and human rights. Concerns with threats to human rights resulting from developments in science and technology were expressed in the early days of the United Nations (UN), along with the recognition of the ambitious human right of everyone “to enjoy the benefits of (...) progress and its applications.” This comment explores the hypothesis that the emerging concepts most likely to follow recognition of the human right to water primarily involve issues of science and technology, such as access to medicines or clean and healthy environment. Many threats to human rights from advances in science, which were identified in the past as potential, have become real today, such as invasion of privacy from electronic recording, deprivation of health and livelihood as a result of climate change, or control over individual autonomy through advances in genetics and neuroscience. This comment concludes by urging greater engagement of scientists and engineers, in partnership with human rights specialists, in translating normative pronouncements into defining policy and planning interventions. (shrink)
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  45. Technology Philosophical Assessment.Konrad Waloszczyk - 2012 - Dialogue and Universalism 22 (4):103-109.
    The author presents a schematic outline of two approaches in contemporary philosophy of technology, the first of which is rather pessimistic, with technological progress seen as a rising force which subjugates humans and, to use Martin Heidegger’s words, “hampers, oppresses and drags them along in its tracks.” Also underscored is the failing relation between scientific and technological progress and moral development. The second approach, presented in reference to the thoughts of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, interprets (...)
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    Cultural and Value Differences in the Conditions of Technological Globalisation.Edvardas Rimkus - 2024 - Filosofija. Sociologija 35 (1).
    The text is the editor’s introduction to the articles of this scientific journal Philosophy. Sociology, thematically divided into four sections: Philosophy of Technology and Ethics of Technology, Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Communication, Philosophy of Art and Art Communication, Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. This article also aims to problematise the concepts of culture and technology and present one of the conceptual approaches when considering cultural and value differences in the conditions of technological globalisation. From the author’s perspective, although (...)
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    Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies.Ilya Kasavin & Lada Shipovalova - 2022 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 52 (5):290-298.
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 290-298, September 2022. Disputes in the field of science and technology studies demonstrate its topicality as they elucidate the prospects for a postmodern world, and William Lynch in his book, in search of a constructive solution to current controversies, employs the dialectical approach of Lakatos and Feyerabend. Lynch takes a bold step to present an apparently “degenerated scientific research program” as a competitive alternative to the established and “progressive” mainstream. (...)
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    Unfit for the Future? Human Nature, Scientific Progress, and the Need for Moral Enhancement.Ingmar Persson & Julian Savulescu - 2011 - In Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane (eds.), Enhancing Human Capacities. Blackwell. pp. 486–500.
    This chapter identifies the problems created by the misfit between a limited human moral nature and globalized, highly advanced technology. It highlights the several ways of addressing the potential catastrophic consequences of this mismatch. The chapter discusses the development of a globally responsible liberalism, with the restriction of traditional liberal neutrality, inculcation of values and “moral education” to achieve restraint, promote cooperation, respect for equality, and other values now necessary for our survival as a global community. It also discusses some (...)
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    Zionism and the Eros of science and technology.Noah Efron - 2011 - Zygon 46 (2):413-428.
    Abstract. From the earliest nineteenth-century manifestos through the big, technology-rich development projects of Israel's recent history, science and technology have loomed large in Zionist ideologies. There were several reasons for this. From the start, science and technology fit snuggly with many aims, ideals, and ideologies of Zionism. Science and technology offered means to establish Jewish title to the land. They made plain that Jewish settlement of Palestine was a Western project imbued with Western ideals. Science and technology (and scientific (...)
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    Transformation and deformation of scientific knowledge in connection with changes in society.A. A. Kartashova - 2015 - Liberal Arts in Russiaроссийский Гуманитарный Журналrossijskij Gumanitarnyj Žurnalrossijskij Gumanitaryj Zhurnalrossiiskii Gumanitarnyi Zhurnal 4 (5):347.
    In the article, the main directions of development of science are considered in the context of the analysis of the strategies of modern social development and formation of social knowledge. This topic is considered in close connection with historical, global, national trends in the society. The relevance of this study relates to changes occurring in modern society: changing of requirements for scientific knowledge and education in connection with scientific and technological revolution, transition from the information society to (...)
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