The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winner - are shown to represent an empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America. Foreword
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Don Ihde
Introduction: American Philosophers of Technology
1(10)
Hans Achterhuis
Albert Borgmann: Technology and the Character of Everyday Life
11(26)
Pieter Tijmes
Hubert Dreyfus: Humans versus Computers
37(28)
Philip Brey
Andrew Feenberg: Farewell to Dystopia
65(30)
Hans Achterhuis
Donna Haraway: Cyborgs for Earthly Survival?
95(24)
Rene Munnik
Don Ihde: The Technological Lifeworld
119(28)
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Langdon Winner: Technology as a Shadow Constitution
147(24)
Martijntje Smits
Contributors
171(2)
Index
173
