Abstract

Willem Vanderburg holds professorships in both sociology and engineering at the University of Toronto, and is the founding director of the Centre for Technology and Social Development. This provocative, interdisciplinary work encompasses very diverse areas such as epistemology, history and philosophy of science and technology, ecology, and sociology. The book includes a preface, postscript, notes, and index. The main text is divided into four numbered parts and eleven numbered chapters, which are further subdivided into numbered sections.