{"product_id":"feedback-loops-9781498597623","title":"Feedback Loops","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u0026amp; 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance Computing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne C. Fitzpatrick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of Technology and the Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonald Laymon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 A Defense of Sicilian Realism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Wells Garnar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Quasi-fictional Idealization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Rescher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Technological Knowledge in Disability Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshley Shew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Guajardo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Staley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Moral values in technical artifacts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Kroes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts – Reflections on Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandiff R. Caron\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Gravity and Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Franklin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames H. Collier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph C. Pitt\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040874299735,"sku":"9781498597623","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498597623.jpg?v=1750948144","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feedback-loops-9781498597623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}