The Metaphysics of Technology

What is technology, and why does it have such power in our lives? In this book, Skrbina adopts a classic metaphysical approach. Drawing on the Greeks, he argues for a teleological metaphysics in which increasing order in the universe is itself defined as a technological process. All of reality thus constitutes a technical sphere, a "pantechnikon," of universal scope. This volume will be an essential addition to the philosophy of technology.

Autorentext

David Skrbina, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.

Zusammenfassung
The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at the 23rd Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition. At this exciting event, speaker after speaker presented new discoveries about infants' visual perception in areas ranging from sensory processes to visual cognition. The field continues to make significant progress in understanding the infant's perceptual world. Several advances have come from the development of new methods for exploring infant perception and cognition that have brought new empirical findings. Advances have also been made in understanding the mechanisms underlying perceptual development. Outstanding examples of this ongoing progress can be seen in the chapters of this volume.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Metaphysis 1. Situating Technology 2. Technê, Logos, Theos 3. Cause, Teleology, and Transcendence 4. Technology and Cosmic Evolution 5. German Metaphysical Insights: Dessauer, Juenger, Heidegger 6. Borgmann's "Critical" Metaphysics Part II: Praxis 7. Classical Critiques: Glimpses of the Pantechnikon 8. Recent Critiques: 1900 to Present 9. The Case for Technological Determinism 10. Replies and Refutations 11. Three Case Studies 12. Technology and Human Destiny. Epilogue