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Feedback Loops

Pragmatism about Science and Technology
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In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original writing from philosophers and science and technology studies scholars to provide novel ways of rethinking the relationships between science, technology, education, and society. Through critiquing and exploring the work of philosopher of science and technology Joseph C. Pitt, the authors featured in this volume explore the complexities of contemporary technoscience, writing on topics ranging from super-computing to pedagogy, engineering to biotechnology patents, and scientific instruments to disability studies. Taken together, these chapters develop an argument about the necessity of using pragmatism to foster a more productive relationship between science, technology and society.
Contents Preface Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew 1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance Computing Anne C. Fitzpatrick 2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of Technology and the Law Ronald Laymon 3 A Defense of Sicilian Realism Andrew Wells Garnar 4 Quasi-fictional Idealization Nicholas Rescher 5 Technological Knowledge in Disability Design Ashley Shew 6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection Ivan Guajardo 7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy Thomas Staley 8 Moral values in technical artifacts Peter Kroes 9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts - Reflections on Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering Education Brandiff R. Caron 10 Gravity and Technology Allan Franklin 11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy James H. Collier Afterword Joseph C. Pitt
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