From Artifact to Habitat: Studies in the Critical Engagement of TechnologyGayle L. Ormiston Lehigh University Press, 1990 - 221 páginas Bringing together philosophy, literary criticism and textual theory, social and political theory, and the philosophy of language and cognitive science, this collection intends to establish an interpretive framework for exploring the ubiquity nd mediacy of technology. |
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Página 17
... turns toward a critical analysis of what is called " modern technology " and the development of a certain atti- tude , first articulated by Francis Bacon and later by Rene Descartes , it engenders regarding humanity's place in the ...
... turns toward a critical analysis of what is called " modern technology " and the development of a certain atti- tude , first articulated by Francis Bacon and later by Rene Descartes , it engenders regarding humanity's place in the ...
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... turns toward the issue of the responsible employment of tech- nology . Byrne claims that if one accepts the view that technology is " runaway " or " autonomous " of human agency , there is theoretical- ly no room for any discussion of ...
... turns toward the issue of the responsible employment of tech- nology . Byrne claims that if one accepts the view that technology is " runaway " or " autonomous " of human agency , there is theoretical- ly no room for any discussion of ...
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... turns back on itself to demonstrate just how " the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves , " to use a phrase employed by Philip Glotzbach , 14 how our " representations " and " conceptions " —fictions , if you will — are already at ...
... turns back on itself to demonstrate just how " the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves , " to use a phrase employed by Philip Glotzbach , 14 how our " representations " and " conceptions " —fictions , if you will — are already at ...
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... turn against the human by severing it from some larger reality — a severing that can be manifest in a failure of faith or shift of the will , a refusal to rely on or trust God or the gods , whether manifested in nature or in providence ...
... turn against the human by severing it from some larger reality — a severing that can be manifest in a failure of faith or shift of the will , a refusal to rely on or trust God or the gods , whether manifested in nature or in providence ...
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... things was complete or whether they thought they were obli- gated to neglect human things to speculate on divine things . ( Memorabil- ia 1.1.11-12 ) Persons who turn away from human things to things having 34 CARL MITCHAM.
... things was complete or whether they thought they were obli- gated to neglect human things to speculate on divine things . ( Memorabil- ia 1.1.11-12 ) Persons who turn away from human things to things having 34 CARL MITCHAM.
Índice
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Technological Consciousness and the Modern Understanding of the Good Life | 60 |
The Sacrilization of the Familiar | 74 |
Technology and the Creation of Concepts | 102 |
The Autonomy of Technology | 117 |
Evidence of Responsibility? | 132 |
Sartres Critique and the Weberian Theory of Bureaucracy | 155 |
Necessary? Constraints on Computer Models of Natural Language Understanding | 175 |
A Philosophical Critique | 196 |
Select Bibliography | 209 |
Index | 215 |
Términos y frases comunes
action activity analysis Andre Gorz argues Aristotle articulated artifacts artificial intelligence artificial system arts attempt autonomous Bacon becomes being-with being-with technology bureaucracy CARL MITCHAM cognitive concept of technology consciousness context critical Critique culture discourse Edgar Allan Poe effect essay example Existential experience expert systems Francis Bacon function Galileo Giambattista Vico habitat Heidegger human Ibid ideas ideology imagination individual Industrial issue Jacques Ellul Jean-Paul Sartre knowledge labor labor-saving device logic machines Martin Heidegger Marxism means mediacy modern moral mystery natural language natural language processing nology objects perception philosophy Plato Poe's political possible practical praxis principles problem production question reality reason relation representation response result rules Sartre Sartre's Schank science fiction scientific sense social society Socrates specific structure sublime tech techné technical techniques telescope things thought tion traditional trans translation understanding University Press Vico workers writes York
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Página 56 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 51 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Página 57 - But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Página 57 - It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars; Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil.
Página 51 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
Página 79 - As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone, both in sound and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely from the sense of identity— of repetition.
Página 52 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth...
Página 53 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 57 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong...
Página 43 - Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand.