{"product_id":"thinking-through-science-and-technology-philosophy-religion-and-politics-in-an-engineered-world-9781538176504","title":"Thinking through Science and Technology:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvancements in science, technology, and engineering are ubiquitously embraced across the globe. Their promises—more material goods, longer and healthier lives, more convenience, and more pleasure and less suffering—and their overall track record of results have largely insulated them from critical evaluation. The problems they cause are often depicted as flaws with a particular technology in some context, and their resolutions are proposed as better technologies or different deployments. This diagnosis is accepted by most people, who, while bombarded with messages of the salvific power of STEM, know little about what its practitioners do or how most technologies work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edited volume transcends the mood of technological optimism and disciplinary captivity to develop a critical, broad, and diverse understanding of how science, technology, and engineering have transformed human experiences, practices, and values, with an emphasis on ethics, religion, and policy. The escalating intensity of these transformations on more aspects of human existence—a trend accelerated by responses to COVID-19—and growing recognition of the severity and extent of their accompanying psychological, social, cultural, and environmental consequences make this effort timely. The chapters, many written by prominent intellectuals, draw on a range of disciplinary and cultural resources and most will likely be intellectually important and well-received individually. Taken together, the book will provide an unsurpassed composite, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural view of science, technology, and engineering and the transformations they cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes twenty-seven chapters by scholars from the United States, Latin America, China, and Europe. The contributions use resources from diverse disciplines and traditions to help readers to think through the always changing sociotechnical milieu in which we live and work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Mitcham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Editors' Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Philosophy and Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh 2: The Enigma of Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Feenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Organization as Technique: A Blind Spot in the Philosophy of Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Cérézuelle, translation by Christian Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Technology as Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Coeckelbergh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo Strauss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Mitcham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Nuclear Menace and the Prophecy of Doom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Pierre Dupuy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The End of Technology and the Renewal of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert Borgmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Philosophy and Engineering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: An Engineer Considers Technological (Non)Neutrality: “But Where Are the Values?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eByron Newberry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanna van Grunsven, Lavinia Marin, Taylor Stone, Sabine Roeser \u0026amp; Neelke Doorn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Parallel Steps toward Philosophy of Engineering in China and West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNan WANG and LI Bocong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: The Development of the Philosophy of Engineering in China: Engaging the Scholarship of Carl Mitcham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTong LI and Yongmou LIU\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Religion, Science, and Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Christianity, Power, and Technological Domination: A Typological Approach to the Church\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé Antonio Ullate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Technology in Cosmic Terms: The World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, 1948\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Karns Alexander\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Beyond Tools, Means, and Ends: Explorations into the Post-Instrumental Erehwon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Robert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Understanding Bureaucratic Order: The Theological Paradigms of Modern Hierarchy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSajay Samuel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: What Religion, What Technology? A Wittgensteinian Approach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndoni Alonso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Bioethics, Philosophy, and Religious Wisdom: A Critical Assessment of Leon Kass’s Thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Arnhart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Science and Technology Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Ethics and the Search for Scientific Knowledge: The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos Verdugo-Serna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: A Short History of Science, Truth, and Politics in the United States, 1945–2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Sarewitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Moral Narratives of Technological Change in the Early Green Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Moon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Momentum, Interrupted: Developing Habits of Discernment in Engineering and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJen Schneider\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22: Innovation Policy Driven by the Market: The Second Great Disembeddedness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé Luís Garcia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Science and Technology Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23: Irrational Energy Ethics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Briggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Paradoxical Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women’s Farming, Oil, and Sustainable Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTricia Glazebrook and Gordon Akon-Yamga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25: The Pandemic and Clamor for Vaccines: Ethical-Legal Considerations for Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Sharing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePamela Andanda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26: An Effective History of the Basic-Applied Distinction in “Science” Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ: Britt Holbrook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27: Technological Risks, Institutional Wariness, and the Dynamics of Trust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé A: López Cerezo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041249165655,"sku":"9781538176504","price":107.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538176504.jpg?v=1750949508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-through-science-and-technology-philosophy-religion-and-politics-in-an-engineered-world-9781538176504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}