Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Foreword......Page 9
Series Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Notes on the Contributors......Page 17
Introduction......Page 22
Part I: History of Philosophy and Technology......Page 32
1 Homo faber: the Unity of the History and Philosophy of Technology......Page 34
2 Becoming through Technology......Page 61
Part II: Technology: Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues......Page 84
3 Quick-Freezing Philosophy: an Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology......Page 86
4 How to Read Technology Critically......Page 104
5 The McLuhans and Metaphysics......Page 121
6 The Question Concerning Thinking......Page 144
7 Understanding Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective......Page 167
Part III: Technology: Ethical and Political Issues......Page 188
8 Human Enhancement and Personal Identity......Page 190
9 The Future of Humanity......Page 207
10 Technology, the Environment and the Moral Considerability of Artefacts......Page 237
11 Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology......Page 262
Part IV: Comparative Philosophy of Technology......Page 286
12 Technology Transfer and Globalization: a New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?......Page 288
13 Philosophy of Technology as Empirical Philosophy: Comparing Technological Scales in Practice......Page 313
C......Page 336
E......Page 337
H......Page 338
M......Page 339
P......Page 340
S......Page 341
V......Page 342
Z......Page 343