Philosophy and technology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fellows, Roger, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series:Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 38.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Technology : liberation or enslavement? / David E. Cooper
  • Do the successes of technology evidence the truth of theories / Michael Smithhurst
  • Instrument and reality : the case of terrestrial magnetism and the northern lights (Aurora Borealis) / Willem Hackmann
  • Realism and progress : why scientists should be realists / Robin Finlay Hendry
  • Quantum technology : where to look for the quantum measurement problem / Nancy Cartwright
  • Welcome to Wales : Searle on the computational theory of mind / Roger Fellows
  • Acts, omissions and keeping patients alive in a persistant vegetative state / Sophie Botros
  • Technology and culture in a developing country / Kwame Gyekye
  • Art and technology : an old tension / Anthony O'Hear
  • Tools, machines annd marvels / Stephen R. L. Clark
  • Values, means and ends / Robert Grant
  • Question time / Renford Bambrough.