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Book SynopsisIn a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original writing from philosophers and science and technology studies scholars to provide novel ways of rethinking the relationships between science, technology, education, and society. Through critiquing and exploring the work of philosopher of science and technology Joseph C. Pitt, the authors featured in this volume explore the complexities of contemporary technoscience, writing on topics ranging from super-computing to pedagogy, engineering to biotechnology patents, and scientific instruments to disability studies. Taken together, these chapters develop an argument about the necessity of using pra
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Contents
Preface
Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew
1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance Computing
Anne C. Fitzpatrick
2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of Technology and the Law
Ronald Laymon
3 A Defense of Sicilian Realism
Andrew Wells Garnar
4 Quasi-fictional Idealization
Nicholas Rescher
5 Technological Knowledge in Disability Design
Ashley Shew
6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection
Ivan Guajardo
7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy
Thomas Staley
8 Moral values in technical artifacts
Peter Kroes
9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts – Reflections on Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering Education
Brandiff R. Caron
10 Gravity and Technology
Allan Franklin
11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy
James H. Collier
Afterword
Joseph C. Pitt
