Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives
As Europe moves toward 1992 and full economic unity, and as Eastern Europe tries to find its way in the new economic order, the United States hesitates. Will the new European economic order be good for the U.S. or not? Such a question is exacerbated by wo
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PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY
VOLUME 8 Series Editor: PAUL T. DURBIN EditorialBoard Albert Borgmann,Montana Mario Bunge, McGill EdmundF. Byrne, IndianaPurdue at Indianapolis Stanley Carpenter,Georgia Tech RobertS. Cohen, BostonRuth SchwartzCowan, SUNYStonyBrook HubertL. Dreyfus, California Berkeley BernardL. Gendron,WisconsinMilwaukee Ronald Giere, Minnesota Steven L. Goldman,Lehigh Virginia Held, CUNY GilbertHottois, UniversiteLibre de Bruxelles Don Ihde, SUNY- StonyBrook Melvin Kranzberg,Georgia Tech Douglas MacLean,Maryland, BaltimoreCounty
Joseph Margolis, Temple RobertMcGinn, Stanford Alex Michalos, Guelph Carl Mitcham,PennsylvaniaState University Joseph Pitt, Virginia Polytechnic FriedrichRapp, Dortmund Nicholas Rescher, Pittsburgh EgbertSchuurman,Technical UniversityofDelft KristinShrader-Frechette,South Florida ElisabethStraker, Cologne Ladislav Tondl, Czechoslovak Academyof Science Marx Wartofsky,CUNY CarolineWhitbeck,M.I.T. LangdonWinner,R.P.I. WalterCh. Zimmerli,Technical UniversityCarolo-Wilhelmina, Braunschweig
The titles publishedin this series are listed at the end of this volume.
OFFICIALPUBLICATIONOF THE SOCIETYFOR PHILOSOPHYAND TECHNOLOGY
PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY
VOLUME 8
EUROPE, AMERICA, AND TECHNOLOGY:
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES Editedby
PAUL T. DURBIN UniversityofDelaware
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESSMEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Europe, Amerlca. AmerIca, and technology phIlosophIcal perspectlves perspectIves Europe. phl1osophlcal by Paul T. DurbIn. p.c m. -- (Ph i • as 0 S 00 P phhYYan and d tee h n0 log Y Y ,,88) ) Includes blbliographical bIbliographical references and Index.
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ISBN 978-94-010-5429-4 ISBN 978-94-011-3242-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3242-8
1. Technology--Phi los~phy.
T14.E84
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1991
DurbIn, Paul T. I. DurbIn.
II. Serles. Series. 11.
91-619
ISBN 978-94-010-5429-4
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION:The Developmentof Technology in Eastern and WesternEurope- Albert Borgmann
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PART I SYMPOSIUMON IVAN ILLICH LEONARDJ. WAKS / Ivan Illich's Philosophy of Technology: Introduction CARL MITCHAM/ Tools for Conviviality:Argument,Insight, Influence LEONARDJ. WAKS / Ivan Illich and Deschooling Society: A Reappraisal ROBERTN. PROCTOR/ Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis: Fifteen Years Later LARRY D. SPENCE/ Ivan Illich's H20 and the Watersof Forgetfulness
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PART II MISCELLANY THOMAS ALEXANDER/ The Technology of Desire: John Dewey, Social Criticism,and the Aesthetics of Human Existence HANS LENK / Ideology, Tech
