Philosophy, technology, and the environment
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
"Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent paths despite their common interest in examining human modification of the natural world. Yet philosophers from each field have a lot to contribute to the other. Environmental issues inevitably involve t…
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Marco Altamirano examines Deleuze?s philosophy of time, from its Bergsonian inheritance to its Nietzschean re-evaluation to Deleuze?s co-authored work with Guattari. He then deploys the conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze and Guattari to show how technology is an essenti…
"Die Technisierung der Natur und des menschlichen Körpers droht außer Kontrolle zu geraten. Der Ethik muss es um Kriterien der Passung von Technik, Natur und Menschenwürde gehen. Ihre Methode ist eine historisch belehrte Vernunft. In der gegenwärtigen Phase der ökonomisch-techni…
Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists; it's a moneymaking enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. In fact, as the economy faces unprecedented challenges from high energy prices, resource shortages, and global en…
"This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings hav…