Bücher der Reihe Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

This book offers a fusion of philosophy and technology, delineating the normative landscape that informs today's technologies and tomorrow's inventions. It examines what is deemed to be the internal norms that govern the ever-expanding technical universe.

This is an updated overview of the most important thinking of Joseph C. Pitt of Virginia Tech, the prominent philosopher of technology. It challenges the idea that eternal philosophical issues transcend the impact of technologies on humans and their world.

This volume features essays that detail the distinctive ways authors and researchers in Spanish speaking countries express their thoughts on contemporary philosophy of technology.

This book provides critical reflection to this idea, in four different areas: Information Ethics and The Method of Levels of Abstraction The Information Revolution and Alternative Categorizations of Technological Advancements Applications: Education, Internet and Information Science Epistemic and Ontic Aspects of the Philosophy of Information

Computer games are now a major cultural-and economic-force, and despite being the object of years of academic study, this is the first book to interrogate the varied philosophical issues thrown up by the phenomenon, including the moral evaluation of game play.

This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values.

This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values.

Contributors explore these two themes in a variety of specific contexts, including engineering epistemology, engineers' social responsibilities, engineering and public policy-making, engineering innovation, and the affective dimensions of engineering work.