Readings in the philosophy of technology

Early Philosophy of Technology

Do Machines Make History? / Robert Heilbroner

Toward a Philosophy of Technology / Hans Jonas

Question Concerning Technology / Martin Heidegger

Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology / Hubert Dreyfus

Some Social Implications of Technology / Herbert Marcuse

Technical Progress and the Social Life-World / Jurgen Habermas

Recent Philosophy of Technology

The Culture of Technology / Arnold Pacey

Technologies as Forms of Life / Langdon Winner

Focal Things and Practices / Albert Borgmann

A Phenomenology of Technics / Don Ihde. Cy borg Manifesto / Donna Haraway

A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans / Bruno Latour

Ecological Resoration and the Cuture of Nature / Andrew Light

Democratic Rationalization / Andrew Feenberg

Technology and Ethics

Technology and Responsibility / Hans Jonas

Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights / Robert McGinn

The Constitution in Cyberspace / Lawrence Tribe

Technological Ethics in a Different Voice / Diane Michelfelder

Technology and Politics

Do Artifacts Have Politics? / Langdon Winner

Strong Democracy and Technology / Richard Sclove

Socialism and Democratic Planning of Technical Change / Tony Smith

The Insurgent Architect at Work / David Harvey

Technology and Human Nature

Panopticism / Michel Foucault

Enhancement Technology / Carl Elliot

Twenty-First Century Bodies / Ray Kurzweil

Why Computers May Never Think Like People / Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus

Whither Psychoanalysis in a Computer Culture / Sherry Turkle

Technology and Science

Experimentation and Scientific Realism / Ian Hacking

Laboratories / Bruno Latour

Scientific Visualism / Don Ihde

Should Philosophies of Science Encode Democratic Ideals? / Sandra Harding