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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Philosophy of Technology"”.
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Philosophy of Technology 'Un-Disciplined'
Philosophy of technology (PoT) analyzes the nature of technology, its significance and consequences, and its mediation of human experiences of the world. Classical philosophers of technology describe mechanization as alienating: Technology causes humans to lose their connection with the natural …
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Techno-Racism: Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology and Critical Philosophies of Race
… Society. In some ways it even makes a great deal of sense to think about racism as a tool of political power. My dissertation explores the way in which racism is informed by the underlying social structure of whiteness, and the way that modern technology is informed by the underlying structure of …
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Get Ready for Future Education: A Phenomenological Study on Artificial Intelligence
… research attempted to analyze the phenomenon of artificial intelligence in education, grounding in American philosophy, with a review of the history of A.I. in education, its promise, and possible futures. The primary purpose of the study was to share voices and lived experiences of educators, …
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A Unifying Account of Technological Knowledge: Animal Construction, Tool Use, and Technology
Philosophers, historians of technology, and anthropologists often offer accounts of technology that include a “human clause,” some phrase to the effect that only humans use or make technologies. When these academics do consider tool use, they refer to a few cases, usually from chimpanzee studies, …
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Touching the Face of God: Religion, Technology, and the United States Air Force
The goal of my project is a detailed analysis of the technological culture of the United States Air Force from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. In particular, using the metaphor of the Air Force as religion helps in understanding a culture built on matters of life-and-death. This …
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Moral Code: The Design and Social Values of the Internet
In the field of philosophy, the study of the Internet has mainly focused on the social responses to the technology or offered contending visions of the future forms of the Internet with little or no regard for the import of the technical features that contribute to these possibilities. Philosophy …
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TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AS NARRATIVE AND MORAL PRACTICE. CULTIVATING RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION IN AI-DRIVEN START-UPS
The thesis investigates how the notion of Responsible Innovation (RI), conceived for research institutes and established firms, can be applied to the context of start-ups, where resource constraints and uncertainty about the final technological product make ethical assessment more difficult. The …
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Things made strange : de︠st︡abilizing habitual perception
Technology mediates our perception of the world. The tools of contemporary society's digital habit aim for transparency, creating an inextricable link between the human body, perception and life-world. The resulting entanglement between humans and technology challenges the sensorium: illusion and …
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Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the (Re)Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art
… introduces Neomythism—the reactivation of mythic possibility through human-AI collaborative art-making—as a framework for addressing the compounded epistemic exclusion of marginalized creative practitioners, enforced by a myth of disenchantment that operates at civilizational, …
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Public environmental information systems: challenges and perspectives
… information, starting with the examination of environmental information and environmental information systems (EIS). This examination demonstrates that term “environmental information” holds a wide range of meaning, and while it is possible to describe “core environmental information”, the …
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Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies
<p>My thesis is that the concept and practice of repair, properly understood and circumscribed, can serve to: (1) specify a responsibility to care for individuals who are cognitively dependent on particular configurations of technologies and suffer cognitively significant harms following damage to …
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Friction as affordance for flourishing
Technology companies are reshaping architecture through convenience-driven products and environments that prioritise a ‘frictionless’ user experience. This thesis challenges this para- digm by demonstrating how removing user frictions often eliminates critical affordances for human flourishing - …
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Sport/utility vehicles as technologies of the suburban self: The only civilized way to leave civilization
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the transactional and transformative relationships between automobiles and their owners/drivers. Using the sport/utility vehicle as a case study, I show how both the automobile and its user go through transformations of meaning. These transformations take …
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
… within the design process against a backdrop of increasing neoliberalism and technocracy. This is investigated by means of a comparative study of smart public bikeshare schemes in Dublin, Ireland and Hamilton, Canada. These schemes are configured and systemized using a variety of technical and …
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User-Generated Content and Revolutions: Towards a Theorization of Web 2.0
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how characteristics of Web 2.0, users’ beliefs on freedom of information in the Web, and external forces combine to create social stability and how changes in these factors can lead to revolts. While still an emerging phenomenon, the web has evolved …
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The Technological Infrastructure of Science
In this dissertation, I explore a selection of recent work in the philosophy and history of experiment, with an eye toward reformulating its focus and redirecting its future path. Specifically, I re-examine a traditional problem in the philosophy of experiment: how to make sense of scientists' …
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
… ways. I focus on how the technological agency of social robots is understood in ethical canons by shifting from moral concerns in Robot Ethics to data-related ethical concerns in Media and Surveillance Studies. I then move to wider debates on morality, agenthood, and agencies in Machine and …
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The Machine–Organism Distinction
The idea that analysis of organisms can proceed by distinguishing organisms from machines is common to many areas of philosophy. This thesis argues that our search for a philosophy of organisms should not proceed by defining or relying on a Machine–Organism Distinction (MOD). We are often able to …
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Concretizing Sustainable Worlds: Environmentalism as a Politics of Technological Transformation
Andrew Feenberg, a philosopher of technology, argues for a democratic rationalization of technology, whereby subjugated actors intervene in the design process to achieve their interests. He claims that environmentalism represents one of the greatest opportunities for this kind of intervention. His …
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Hacking Systems, Hacking Values: Interactive Theories For An Interactive World
… has become a classic piece within Science and Technology Studies. While Winner was certainly not the first to consider the inherently political qualities of technology, his article has assumed the role of a touchstone for both supporters and critics of the idea that artifacts embody political …
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