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Technics and Praxis
Don Ihde
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Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 308.
Depending on how one construes the kinship relations, technology has been either the stepchild of philosophy or its grandfather. In either case, technology has not been taken into the bosom of the family, but has had to wait for attention, care and feeding, while the more unclear elements - science, art, politics, ethics - were being nurtured (or cleaned up). Don Ihde puts technology in the middle of things, and develops a philosophy of technology that is at once distinctive, revealing and thought provoking. Typically, philosophy of technology has existed at, or beyond, the margins of the philosophy of science, ... Read more
Depending on how one construes the kinship relations, technology has been either the stepchild of philosophy or its grandfather. In either case, technology has not been taken into the bosom of the family, but has had to wait for attention, care and feeding, while the more unclear elements - science, art, politics, ethics - were being nurtured (or cleaned up). Don Ihde puts technology in the middle of things, and develops a philosophy of technology that is at once distinctive, revealing and thought provoking. Typically, philosophy of technology has existed at, or beyond, the margins of the philosophy of science, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027709547
SKU
V9789027709547
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