The good life in a technological age /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Adam Briggle, Philip Brey and Edward Spence
- Mapping the landscape
- Well-being in philosophy, psychology, and economics / Philip Brey
- Theorizing technology / Carl Mitcham and Adam Briggle
- Theoretical approaches
- Quality of life in technological society : a macrosociological approach / Ruut Veenhoven
- Capabilities and technology / Justine Johnstone
- Happiness and meaning in a technological age : a psychological approach / Michael Steger and Joo Yeon Shin
- The ambivalence of the good life : happiness, economics, technology, and relational goods / Luigino Bruni
- Desire-satisfactionism and technology / Anton Tupa
- Consumer products and well-being
- Consuming happiness / Lindsey Patterson and Robert Biswas-Diener
- Thinking through consumerism and technology / Pak Hang Wong
- Consumption and sustainability : a neo-epicurean approach to a sustainable good life in a technological world / Edward Spence
- Cell phones, ipods, and subjective well-being / Valerie Tiberius
- Information technology and well-being
- New social media and the virtues / Shannon Vallor
- Web 2.0: community as commodity? / Diane P. Michelfelder
- Types of internet use, well-being and the good life : ethical views from prudential psychology / Omar Rosas
- Virtually good? : disclosing the presuppositions behind the claimed inferiority of virtual worlds / Johnny Hartz Søraker
- Medical and agricultural technology and well-being
- What's wrong with techno food? / David Kaplan
- Human enhancement and well-being / Bengt Brülde
- On hubris and hybrids : ascesis and the ethics of technology / Peter Paul Verbeek
- Brave new world : platonism 2.0 / Tsjalling Swierstra
- Care robots, virtual virtue, and the best possible life / Mark Coeckelbergh
- Technology design and policy
- Can we design for well-being? / Ibo van de Poel
- The university, metrics, and the good life / Robert Frodeman, J. Britt Holbrook and Kelli Barr
- Science policy and the expectation of health : the case for reforming peer review at the national institutes of health / Adam Briggle
- Neutrality and technology : ortega y gasset on the good life / Jeroen van den Hoven
- Technological change and the destabilization of liberal politics / Govert Valkenburg
- Contributors
- Index.