Feedback Loops

Pragmatism about Science and Technology

Andrew Wells Garnar, Ashley Shew (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9762-3 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the arrangement of science, technology, society, and education. Using the concept of 'feedback loop', this book processes subjects dear to the work of Joseph C. Pitt: technology as humanity at work, pragmatism, Sicilian realism, pragmatist pedagogy, instrumentation in science, and more.

In 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 & 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 pragmatism to foster a more productive relationship between science, technology and society.

Andrew Wells Garnar earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Ashley Shew is assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

Contents

Preface

Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew

1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance Computing

Anne C. Fitzpatrick

2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of Technology and the Law

Ronald Laymon

3 A Defense of Sicilian Realism

Andrew Wells Garnar

4 Quasi-fictional Idealization

Nicholas Rescher

5 Technological Knowledge in Disability Design

Ashley Shew

6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection

Ivan Guajardo

7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy

Thomas Staley

8 Moral values in technical artifacts

Peter Kroes

9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts – Reflections on Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering Education

Brandiff R. Caron

10 Gravity and Technology

Allan Franklin

11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy

James H. Collier

Afterword

Joseph C. Pitt

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Co-Autor	Anne C. Fitzpatrick, Ronald Laymon, Nicholas Rescher
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 229 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4985-9762-9 / 1498597629
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-9762-3 / 9781498597623
Zustand	Neuware