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Europe, America, and technology : philosophical perspectives / edited by Paul T. Durbin.
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Boston :: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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1991.
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viii, 263 pages ; 23 cm.
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
"Official publication of the Society for Philosophy and Technology."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Monograph
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0792312546 9780792312543;
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Introduction : the development of technology in Eastern and Western Europe / Albert Borgmann -- Ivan Illich's philosophy of technology : introduction / Leonard J. Waks -- Tools for conviviality : argument, insight, influence / Carl Mitcham -- Ivan Illich
and Deschooling society : a reappraisal / Leonard J. Waks -- Ivan Illich's Medical nemesis : fifteen years later / Robert N. Proctor -- Ivan Illich's H and the waters of forgetfulness / Larry D. Spence -- The technology of desire : John Dewey, social criticism, and the aesthetics of human existence / Thomas Alexander -- Ideology, technocracy, and knowledge utilization / Hans Lenk -- Technology and scientific concepts : mechanics and the concept of mass in Archimedes / Manuel Medina. The limited promise of technology assessment / Friedrich Rapp -- Adam Smith and alma mater : technology and the threat to academic freedom / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- Symposium on education in science, technology, and values : introduction / Leonard J. Waks -- Science and technology education as civic education / Robert K. Fullinwider -- STS, critical thinking, and philosophy for children / Michael S. Pritchard -- STS education and the paradox of green studies / Leonard J. Waks.
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