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This volume represents a critical development in philosophy of technology as Chinese scholars articulate a constructive Chinese philosophy of technology in dialogue with the West, but not subordinate to it. Carl Mitcham's introductory essay and Alfred Nordmann's contribution propose Western philosophers take more seriously the independent value of Chinese philosophy of technology. Additional essays are authored by established European philosophers, mid-career American thinkers, and young Chinese scholars. Included are comparative studies of philosophy of technology outside the Western-Chinese axis, as well as on Western critiques of traditional philosophy of technology. While much of Mitcham’s work has shaped the philosophy of technology and engineering, his later contribution poses a fundamental question of which new generations of philosophers must engage: What went wrong with the West? This volume is a must-read for scholars, advanced students, policymakers, and the general public interested in contemporary technology in a multipolar world. 

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Author:   Levi Checketts
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032222138

ISBN 10:   3032222133
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Part I: Mitcham’s SPT Lifetime Achievement Keynote.- 1. Re-Imagining Chinese Technological Imaginaries.- Part II: Chinese Philosophies of Technology.- 2. Shifts of Technological Understanding in pre-Qin Chinese Thought: Social-Political Relevance and Implications.- 3. A Constructively Positive View on Technology: A Response to Carl Mitcham’s Question.- Part III: Chinese and Western Comparative Philosophies of Technology.- 4. Conviviality and Confucian Oneness: A Case for Mutual Learning.- 5. Technology, Science, and Modernization - Progressive Tales and Modern Myths.- 6. On Progress and Anxiety: A Lacanian Reading of Chinese Technology.- Part IV: Problematizing the Western Narrative.- 7. Ex Oriente Progressus? The Soviet Union, between East and West, as the Light of the World.- 8. Salvation by Technology: A Note.- 9. Homo Deus or Homo Datum? Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Dataism.- Part V: Retrospective on Mitcham’s Contribution to Dialogue with China.- 10. Philosophy of Technology and Engagement with China: Interview with Carl Mitcham.- Epilogue.

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Levi Checketts is an assistant professor of Religion and Philosophy and the Associate Director for the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University and is currently Co-Editor in Chief of Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty and co-editor with Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote of Theology and Technology, and has published in NanoEthics, Prometheus and Theology and Science among other places. His work lies in the intersection of technology and economic ethics with Catholic theology.

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