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Author:   Helena Mateus Jerónimo
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Volume:   43
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9783031146329

ISBN 10:   3031146328
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   24 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Pathways in the Philosophy of Technology in the Portuguese-Speaking Community.- Part I Modern Technology and Aporias of Progress.- 2. António Sérgio: Critical Rationalism and Technology.- 3. The God of Artefacts: Vico’s Principle and Technology.- 4. Technique, Readiness-to-Hand and Development.- 5. Three Essays on Technique, the Artificial and the New Human.- 6. Technology and the Lifeworld in Miguel Baptista Pereira.- 7. Amílcar Cabral: Technology, Agriculture and Colonialism.- Part II Technology, Risk and Values.- 8. Riscophrenia: The Risk Fallacy and the Repression of Uncertainty.- 9. Four Visions of Technology.- 10. The Specificity of Technological Knowledge.- 11. Lost in Translation: Ethics and Engineering Practice.- 12. Critique of the Western Technological Hegemony and Neo-Animism in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho.- Part III Technoscene and Postmodern World.- 13. Mediatization: From Gutenberg to Unlimited Media and Datafication.- 14. The Virtualization of the Archive.-15. Law-Technology Lag or ‘Law as Technology’ in the Big Data Age.- 16. Ontotechnologies of the Body: Technoperformativity and Processes of Subjectivation.- 17. Solidary Technoscience: A Concept for the Philosophy of Technology.- 18. Commercially-Oriented Technoscience and the Need for Multi-Strategic Research.

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Helena Mateus Jerónimo (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) is a full time tenured assistant professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade de Lisboa [ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon], Portugal, and researcher at Advance/CSG. Her research interests and publications are in science and technology, sustainability, risk and uncertainty, and in human resource management and organisational behaviour. Helena served on the Executive Board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) from 2013 to 2017. She is currently a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST). Her books include Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century (Springer, 2013, co-edited), Razão, Tempo e Tecnologia: Estudos em Homenagem a Hermínio Martins ([Reason, Time and Technology: Studies in Honour of Hermínio Martins], Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006, co-edited) andQueimar a Incerteza: Poder e Ambiente no Conflito da Co-Incineração de Resíduos Industriais Perigosos ([Burying Uncertainty: Power and Environment in the Conflict of Co-Incineration of Hazardous Industrial Waste], Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2010).

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