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Thinking through technology : the path between engineering and philosophy

This introduction to the philosophy of technology discusses its sources and uses. Tracing the changing meaning of "technology" from ancient times to the modern day, it identifies two important traditions of critical analysis of technology: the engineering approach and the humanities approach
Print Book, English, 1994
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
xi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226531960, 9780226531984, 0226531961, 0226531988
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Engineering philosophy of technology
Humanities philosophy of technology
From engineering to humanities philosophy of technology
The philosophical questioning of technology
Philosophical questions about techne
From philosophy to technology
Types of technology as object
Types of technology as knowledge
Types of technology as activity
Types of technology as volition
Three ways of being with technology