Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Scalambrino, Frank, 1976-

Description

1. vi, 238 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the direction we are moving, how should the pursuit of knowledge be organized? Social Epistemology and Technology provides insights into such questions relating to public self-awareness regarding technology. The concerns addressed in this book apply to a large and diverse audience including, but not limited to, those interested in social epistemology, technology, cultural studies, trans-humanism, augmented subjectivity, futurology, human sciences, social sciences, political sciences, communication, psychology, science and technology studies and philosophy. This is the first book of its kind to focus soley on technology and its socially specific epistemological themes. It offers insight into public self-awareness regarding technology by providing and understanding of persons in relation to the technological changes that have occurred, and continue to occur, across the societies they people"--Back cover.

Series statement

1. Collective studies in knowledge and society

Uniform title

1. Collective studies in knowledge and society.

Subject

1. Technology
2. Self-consciousness (Awareness)
3. Knowledge, Sociology of
4. Social epistemology

Contents

1. Introduction: publicizing the social effects fo technological mediation / Frank Scalambrino -- The place of value in a world of information: prolegomena to any Marx 2.0 / Steve Fuller -- Technological systems and genuine public interests / Hans Radder -- The end of trust in the age of big data / Daniel J. Brunson -- Filter bubbles and the public use of reason: applying epistemology to the newsfeed / Jamie Carlin Watson -- The internet and existentialism: Kierkegaardian and Hegelian insights / Patrick J. Reider -- Existential privacy and the technological situation of boundary regulation / Elize de Mul -- Critical media: medica archeology as critical theory / Stephen M. Bourque -- Speculative ethics and anticipatory governance of emerging technology: a case for "un-disciplined" philosophy of technology / William Davis -- What control? Life at the limits of power expression / Frank Scalambrino -- Heidegger on the Question Concerning Technology and Gelassenheit / Charles Bambach -- How learning to read and write shapes humanity: a technosomatic perspective on digitization / Joris Vlieghe -- Labor and technology: Kant, Marx, and the critique of instrumental reason / Arthur Kok -- The biopolitics of the female: constituting gendered subjects through technology / Danielle Guizzo -- Phenomenology of radiology: intentional analysis in the constitution of diagnostic judgment / Mindaugas Briedis -- Absent to those present: the conflict between connectivity and communion / Chad Engelland -- Recognizing the face and facial recognition / Levi Checketts -- Situatied mediation and technological reflexivity: smartphones, extended memory, and limits of cognitive enhancement / Chris Drain and Richard Charles Strong -- The vanishing subject: becoming who you cybernetically are / Frank Scalambrino.

Call number

1. JFE 16-1943

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.

Title

1. Social epistemology and technology : toward public self-awareness regarding technological mediation / edited by Frank Scalambrino.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Collective studies in knowledge and society
2. Collective studies in knowledge and society.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.

Added author

1. Scalambrino, Frank, 1976- editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Social epistemology and technology. London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016] 9781783485321 (DLC) 2015032165 (OCoLC)910859744

LCCN

1. 2015032165

ISBN

1. 9781783485321 (hardcover alkaline paper)
2. 1783485329 (hardcover alkaline paper)
3. 9781783485338 (paperback alkaline paper)
4. 1783485337 (paperback alkaline paper)
5. 9781783485345 (electronic book)

Research call number

1. JFE 16-1943