Introduction: General perspectives on the complexity of philosophy of technology / Friedrich Rapp -- PART I: PRACTICAL PROBLEMS -- Cybernetics, culpability, and risk: automatic launch and accidental war / Lyle V. Anderson -- Catastrophic possibilities
of space-based defense / David Bella -- Judgment and policy: the two-step in mandated science and technology / Edwin Levy -- PART II: HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS -- Skull's darkroom: the Camera Obscura and subjectivity / Lee W. Bailey -- Workplace democracy for teachers: John Dewey's contribution / Edmund F. Byrne -- Doing and making in a democracy: Dewey's experience of technology / Larry Hickman -- Pragmatism, Praxis, and the technological / Joseph Margolis -- PART III: INTERNATIONAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- Philosophy of technology in China / Gao Dasheng and Zou Tsing -- Design methodology: a personal statement / Wojciech Gasparski -- Responsibility and future generations: a constructivist model / Janet Farrell Smith.
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