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    Constructivism and technology critique: Replies to critics.Andrew Feenberg - 2000 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (2):225 – 237.
    1. Thomson's critique: Despite the efforts of his followers to show that Heidegger had a progressive theory of technology, his work is clouded by nostalgia. His positive contribution is a fragmentary opening toward a phenomenology of daily technical practice, which I use to develop de Certeau's distinction between the strategic control of technical systems and their tactical usage by subordinates. Heidegger himself made no such application of his own phenomenological approach. 2. Stump's critique: Can an ontological essentialism and (...)
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    Medieval Technology and the Husserlian Critique of Galilean Science.Timothy Casey - 1996 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 70:219-227.
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    The Errors of Thamus: An Analysis of Technology Critique.Ellen Rose - 2003 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 23 (3):147-156.
    The anti-utopian technology critique of Ellul, Postman, and other important social analysts has been the primary mode of critical response to technological developments since the 1950s. However, this mode of technology critique has had a disappointingly small effect on the way we, as a society, receive technology. Rather than attribute this failure to the negativity of the anti-utopian perspective, this article suggests that there are other important and largely overlooked factors at work—in particular, the critics' inability to (...)
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    Feeling Things: From Visual to Material Jurisprudence: Biber, Katherine. 2018. In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence. Abingdon: Routledge Manderson, Desmond. 2018. Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.Kate West - 2020 - Law and Critique 31 (1):113-126.
    In this article I analyse the extent to which there has been a shift in the cultural turn in legal scholarship and specifically from visual to what I call material jurisprudence, that is from visual to material ways of knowing law. I do so through an analysis of Desmond Manderson’s edited collection, Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique, and Katherine Biber’s monograph, In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence. Inspired by the material turn in the arts and (...)
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    Feminist Critiques of New Fertility Technologies: Implications for Social Policy.A. Donchin - 1996 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 (5):475-498.
    This essay aims to show how feminist theoretical and practical perspectives have enriched and deepened debate about moral and social issues generated by the proliferation and commodification of new reproductive techniques. It evaluates alternative feminist appraisals beginning with the first group to organize a collective response to the medicalization of infertility and explores several weaknesses working within their assessment: objectification of infertile women, naturalizing constructions of motherhood, hostility to technology, and an overly simplistic conception of power relations. Next, it shows (...)
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    Technology, knowledge, governance: The political relevance of Husserl’s critique of the epistemic effects of formalization.Peter Woelert - 2013 - Continental Philosophy Review 46 (4):487-507.
    This paper explores the political import of Husserl’s critical discussion of the epistemic effects of the formalization of rational thinking. More specifically, it argues that this discussion is of direct relevance to make sense of the pervasive processes of ‘technization’, that is, of a mechanistic and superficial generation and use of knowledge, to be observed in current contexts of governance. Building upon Husserl’s understanding of formalization as a symbolic technique for abstraction in the thinking with and about numbers, I argue (...)
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  7. Work, Technology, and Inequality: A Critique of Basic Income.Kory P. Schaff - 2019 - In Michael Cholbi & Michael Weber (eds.), The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income. Routledge. pp. 90-112.
    Recent technological developments in automation threaten to eliminate the jobs of millions of workers in the near future, raising worrisome questions about how to satisfy their welfare. One proposal for addressing this issue is to provide all citizens with a “universal basic income” (UBI) that ensures everyone with a social minimum. The aim is to give all individuals an unrestricted cash grant that provides them with an income that does not depend on status, wealth, or employment. The question this (...)
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    From technologization to totalization in education research: US graduate training, methodology, and critique.Lynda Stone - 2006 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 40 (4):527–545.
    Focusing on the context of graduate training in educational research in the United States today, this article is organized into two principal parts. The first overviews the state of research training in order to emphasize the preoccupation with, indeed dominance of, study of methodology. This has turned ‘how to do research’ into valuing method as technology for its own sake, and thus into technologization. The second part turns to three critiques of technology that together point to potential totalization in research: (...)
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    Technological Unemployment and Meaning in Life, a Buen Vivir Critique of the Virtual Utopia.Ignacio Cea, Anja Lueje Seeger & Thomas Wachter - 2023 - Humana Mente 16 (44).
    In this article, we address the problem of the potential crisis in people’s life’s meaning due to massive automation-driven technological unemployment. Assuming that the problem of (re)distribution of economic resources to the whole of society in such a scenario will be solved (e.g. through provision of a Universal Basic Income), the question arises concerning the meaning of people’s lives in a world in which almost everyone does not have to (or even could not) work in order to live. Here, (...)
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  10. Technological theosis? : an Eastern Orthodox critique of religious transhumanism.Brandon Gallaher - 2022 - In Arvin M. Gouw, Brian Patrick Green & Ted Peters (eds.), Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics. Lanham: Lexington Books.
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    Neoliberalism, Technology, and the University: Max Weber’s Concept of Rationalization as a Critique of Online Classes in Higher Education.Gabriel Keehn, Morgan Anderson & Deron Boyles - 2018 - In Aaron Stoller & Eli Kramer (eds.), Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education. Springer Verlag. pp. 47-66.
    In this essay, we focus on Max Weber’s concept of rationalization to understand and make sense of the rise of bureaucratic, corporate governance and online learning in higher education. We reveal the distinct disconnect between human interaction and online platforms and how such disconnection is antithetical to higher learning. We also show how Weber’s analysis helps us recognize the uniquely crass commercialism embedded in the very rationalization that makes online learning in universities thinkable and actionable. Our use of online learning (...)
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  12. Technology, Philosophy, and the Mastery of Nature: Leibniz' Critique of Cartesian Mechanics.Joseph Kevin Cosgrove - 1996 - Dissertation, The Catholic University of America
    The goal of the modern scientific project, as defined by such thinkers as Descartes and Bacon, is "mastery of nature." Martin Heidegger, in an interpretation of mastery of nature that has left its imprint on post-modern critique of science, maintains that the essence of modern science lies in a projection of "technological being" upon nature. This projective "assault" has its origin in the "self-grounding" project of modern metaphysics, in which the human subject attempts to secure a self-sufficient position (...)
     
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    Technology, Dao-Technē and Home: The Significances and Limits of Heidegger’s Critique of Modern Technology’s Essence.Zhang Xianglong - 2017 - Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2017 (2):372-392.
    Heidegger maintains that the root of modern technology, like that of all other technologies, lies in technē. However, because the art dimension of technē is suppressed in modern technology, the essence of this technology becomes a Gestell that enforces product-making, and thus drives technology beyond the control of human beings. The more fundamental reason underlying this “frame-becoming” nature is “the mathematical” that emerges in ancient Greece, which, through the Cartesian subject-object dichotomy, turns the world into the images represented by the (...)
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  14. Technological rationality in psychiatry : immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative.Peter Zachar & Scott Bartlett - 2009 - In James Phillips (ed.), Philosophical perspectives on technology and psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Rigid Flesh – Towards the Critique of Technologically Mediated Chiasm.Domonkos Sik - 2024 - Critical Horizons 25 (2):94-110.
    Technology has been at the centre of existentialist (e.g. Heidegger) and sociological (e.g. Marcuse) critique for a long time. The latest versions of criticism rely on the results of “science and technology studies”: they argue that essentialist conceptualisations of technology should be replaced while aiming at “democratizing technology” (e.g. Feenberg). However, even these approaches are characterised by a shortcoming when it comes to providing a normative basis: as contemporary technology intermeshes with the elementary levels of existence (such as perception (...)
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  16. Critique as technology of the self.Matthew Sharpe - 2005 - Foucault Studies 2:97-116.
    This inquiry is situated at the intersection of two enigmas. The first is the enigma of the status of Kant's practice of critique, which has been the subject of heated debate since shortly after the publication of the first edition of The Critique of Pure Reason. The second enigma is that of Foucault's apparent later 'turn' to Kant, and the label of 'critique', to describe his own theoretical practice. I argue that Kant's practice of 'critique' should (...)
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  17. From critical theory of technology to the rational critique of rationality.Andrew Feenberg - 2008 - Social Epistemology 22 (1):5 – 28.
    This paper explores the sense in which modern societies can be said to be rational. Social rationality cannot be understood on the model of an idealized image of scientific method. Neither science nor society conforms to this image. Nevertheless, critique is routinely silenced by neo-liberal and technocratic arguments that appeal to social simulacra of science. This paper develops a critical strategy for addressing the resistance of rationality to rational critique. Romantic rejection of reason has proven less effective than (...)
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    A Critique of Technology and Science: An Issue of Philosophy.Jürgen H. Franz - 2011 - Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 11:23-36.
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    Marcuse’s critique of technology today.Andrew Feenberg - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (6):672-685.
    Marcuse was the face of the Frankfurt School during the 1960s and '70s. His eclipse led, among other unfortunate consequences, to the disappearance of his critique of science and technology. That critique is based on an experiential ontology that derives in part from Marcuse’s background in phenomenology. In this paper I trace the roots of that ontology in his early interpretation of Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. One-Dimensional Man takes up the phenomenological critique in a (...)
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    Modernity and destining of technological being: beyond Heidegger's critique of technology to responsible and reflexive technology.Temple Davis Okoro - 2016 - New York: Peter Lang Edition.
    Facing Heidegger s critique of modern technology, the author analyses the question of technology and ethical responsibility and the call for reflexivity towards technology. He examines Heidegger s thoughts about how science and technology conceal the enigmatic and distinctive presencing of Being and exhibits how modern technology has brought unintended consequences and risks. The author extends the deliberation among diverse epistemologies, interested parties and laypersons, a component of reflexive modernization. Such epistemic community opens the way for a new reflexive (...)
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  21. Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology.John P. McCormick - 1997 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This is the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal, and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century's most brilliant critic of liberalism. It offers an assessment of this most sophisticated of fascist theorists without attempting either to apologise for or demonise him. Schmitt's Weimar writings confront the role of technology as it finds expression through the principles and practices of liberalism. Contemporary political conditions such as disaffection with liberalism and the rise of extremist political organizations (...)
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    Critique of the Power of Judgment in the Context of Art’s Technological Reproducibility.Markéta Jakešová - 2021 - In Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress. De Gruyter. pp. 1067-1074.
    One of the less comprehensible passages in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment is paragraph 9 (KU, AA 5: 216 – 219) where the author rhetorically asks: when we perform a pure judgment of taste, does taking pleasure in a beautiful object come first and only then does (any) aesthetic judgment follow or is it the other way around? The partial conclusions from elaborating this question will then be used to support my assumption that art can be (...)
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    A critique of the technological interpretation of historical materialism.David A. Duquette - 1992 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (2):157-186.
    This essay examines and criticizes G. A. Cohen's interpretation of Marx's materialistic conception of history as presented in Cohen's book Karl Marx's Theory of History. In particular, the author attacks Cohen's Primacy Thesis, the claim that (for Marx) human technology is the primary explanatory factor for economic and social change and for historical development generally. The focus of the attack is Cohen's way of distinguishing between the material and social characteristics, or the content and form, of a system of production. (...)
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  24. Against Politics as Technology: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism.John P. Mccormick - 1995 - Dissertation, The University of Chicago
    Over the last decade there has been a veritable explosion of Anglo-American interest in the works of Weimar constitutional and political theorist, Carl Schmitt. There has been concurrently a revival in the treatment of technology as a subject worthy of social-philosophical inquiry. Yet the two scholarly movements have surprisingly passed each other by. Surprisingly because as I demonstrate the German critique of technology is crucial for understanding the works of Schmitt, especially his criticisms of liberalism, and vice versa, theoretical (...)
     
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    Technology, Law, and Annihilation: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Utopianism.Joshua Smeltzer - 2020 - Journal of the History of Ideas 81 (1):107-129.
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    The postcolonial science and technology studies reader.Sandra Harding (ed.) - 2011 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of science and technology philosophies and practices. The contributors reevaluate conventional (...)
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    Sergius Bulgakov’s Critique of NF Fedorov’s Technologized Resurrection.Travis Dumsday - 2020 - Zygon 55 (4):853-874.
    Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944) was one of the centrally important Russian Orthodox theologians of the past century. His theological system (Sophiology) is among the most detailed and comprehensive attempts at a novel, Orthodox systematic theology developed in engagement with western philosophical and theological movements. His first major work of theology, Unfading Light (1917), incorporates an early Orthodox critique of the radical Christian transhumanism propounded by Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829–1903). Fedorov had developed an account of humanity's prospects for a technologically facilitated (...)
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  28. Technological theosis? : an Eastern Orthodox critique of religious transhumanism.Brandon Gallaher - 2022 - In Arvin M. Gouw, Brian Patrick Green & Ted Peters (eds.), Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics. Lanham: Lexington Books.
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    Philosophy of Technology: A Cultural Critique of Digital Aesthetics and Values in Spiritual Practices.Helena Dupont - 2024 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 17 (1):33-48.
    The primary aim of research is to explore the complex relationships in the digital era between technology, culture, aesthetics, and values. This investigation digs deeply into the underlying philosophical underpinnings of our digital environment, going beyond superficial interpretations. The research negotiates the tricky territory where technology and culture collide by drawing on concepts from philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. For measuring, the research study, used E-Views software and generated results, including descriptive statistics, unit root test analysis, co-integration analysis, and histogram (...)
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  30. Marcuse or Habermas: Two critiques of technology.Andrew Feenberg - 1996 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 39 (1):45 – 70.
    The debate between Marcuse and Habermas over technology marked a significant turning point in the history of the Frankfurt School. After the 1960s Habermas's influence grew as Marcuse's declined and Critical Theory adopted a far less Utopian stance. Recently there has been a revival of quite radical technology criticism in the environmental movement and under the influence of Foucault and constructivism. This article takes a new look at the earlier debate from the standpoint of these recent developments. While much of (...)
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    From Critique to Responsibility: The Ethical Turn in the Technology Debate.Tsjalling Swierstra - 1997 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 3 (1):45-48.
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    Heidegger's radical critique of technology as an outline of social acts.Wolfgang Schirmacher & Torgeir Fjeld - 2018 - Inscriptions 1 (1).
    The present text shows that the prevailing view of Martin Heidegger's approach to society and technology is not only based on prejudice, but more importantly works to obscure a more relevant perception of reality. Heidegger's “phenomenological hermeneutic” sought to uncover technology's hidden truth, beyond the appearance of technology as framing our existence (Gestell). Even if we acknowledge that technology has now reached a planetary and all-encompassing dissemination – becoming, in effect, the leading figure of our time – we still need (...)
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    Introduction: Critiquing technologies of the mind: enhancement, alteration, and anthropotechnology.Darian Meacham - 2017 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1):1-16.
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    Technology, Technological Domination, and the Great Refusal: Marcuse’s Critique of the Advanced Industrial Society.Jeffry V. Ocay - 2010 - Kritike 4 (1):54-78.
    Herbert Marcuse’s oeuvre is driven by the recurring theme of“emancipation”—that is, the attempt to liberate man from socialexploitation and the projection of an alternative society, a socialistsociety which Marcuse describes as “free, happy, and non-repressive.”1 This suggests that Marcuse saw the existing society as pathological and therefore it needs to be diagnosed and remedied. His readings on Marx led him to his initial findings that the capitalist social order is the primordial cause of thesepathologies, and, hence, it is the transformation (...)
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    Technology Assessment as a Critique of a Civilization.Henryk Skolimowski - 1974 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974:459 - 465.
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    Technologies of the World, Technologies of the Self: A Schelerian Critique of Dewey and Hickman.Kenneth W. Stikkers - 1996 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 10 (1):62 - 73.
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    A critique of the enquete commission's report on Gene technology.Hans-Martin Sass - 1988 - Bioethics 2 (3):264–275.
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    Vieillissement, technologies et domicile : un projet critique.Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts & Christine Milligan - 2009 - Alter - European Journal of Disability Research / Revue Européenne de Recherche Sur le Handicap 3 (2):90-95.
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    A Critique of The Renewable Energy Technology Assessments of The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment.G. Chandrasekar - 1994 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 14 (5-6):278-283.
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  40. A Critique of the Enquete Commission's Report on Gene Technology.Hans Sass - 1988 - Bioethics 2 (3):264-275.
     
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    Heidegger’s critique of the technology and the educational ecological imperative.Rauno Huttunen & Leena Kakkori - 2022 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (5):630-642.
    It is clear that we have to do something in our time concerning global warming yet before we can actually change the world, we must first understand our world. According to Heidegger, technology itself is not good or bad, but the problem is, that technological thinking (calculative thinking) has become the only form of thinking. Heidegger saw that the essence of technology nowadays is enframing – Ge-stell, which means that everything in nature is ‘standing-reserve’ (Bestand). Enframing (as apparatus) is (...)
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    Marxism and technocracy: Günther Anders and the necessity for a critique of technology.Jason Dawsey - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 153 (1):39-56.
    This article examines why Günther Anders, one of the 20th century’s most formidable critics of technology, deemed a critique of technology necessary at all. I argue that the radical philosophy of industrialism in Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (The Obsolescence of Human Beings) and related texts is a response to what Anders’s work presents as inadequacies of traditional Marxism, with its focus on class struggle and property relations. In effect, his critique of technology, which is more attentive to forms (...)
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    Science and Technology: Positivism and Critique.Hans Radder - 2012 - In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 61–65.
    This chapter contains sections titled: References and Further Reading.
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    Toward a critique of systematically distorting communication technology: Habermas, baudrillard, and mass media.Drew Pierce - 2006 - Social Philosophy Today 22:89-102.
    Since seminal essays like Adorno’s ‘The Culture Industry’ and Benjamin’s ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,’ the mass media has been of central concern for Critical Theory. Yet Critical Theorists have produced relatively little in the way of systematic analysis of the concrete institutions of mass communication. Early on, Habermas seemed to be headed in this direction, especially with the publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. However, in Habermas’s later years, this concern is (...)
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    Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act 2021: Critique and Contestations.Soumya Kashyap & Priyanka Tripathi - 2023 - Asian Bioethics Review 16 (2):149-164.
    The article critically examines the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act 2021, its development process spanning 15 years, and its potential shortcomings in addressing the needs of India’s 27 million infertile couples. By scrutinizing the recommendations presented in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare’s 129th report, the critique argues that the Act may not effectively cater to the diverse reproductive rights of the population. The article claims that most of its suggestions are in opposition to redefining families (...)
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    The Role of Prophetic Critique in Clifford Christians's Philosophy of Technology.Kevin Healey - 2010 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 25 (2):121-138.
    In recent years, scholars have devoted more attention to the “prophetic” critique of mass media. Clifford Christians has served as both an originator and an ongoing contributor to these discussions. Beginning with his doctoral thesis on Jacques Ellul, a concern for the prophetic has been a consistent thread throughout his career. This paper begins by examining Ellul's influence on Christians's approach, with an emphasis on media ecology, ontology, and the concept of technique. I then summarize Christians's critique of (...)
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    Toward a Polanyian Critique of Technology: Attending From the Indwelling of Tools to the Course of Technological Civilization.James Clement van Pelt - 2011 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 31 (3):236-246.
    As a scientist, Michael Polanyi made significant advances in chemistry and economics. From that deep hands-on experience, he derived a powerful critique of prevailing ideas of knowledge and the proper role of science. He demonstrated that disregarding or eliminating the personal embodiment of knowing in the tacit dimension in pursuit of purely explicit and impersonal knowledge results in knowing that is misleadingly incomplete—“absurd.” If technology is the practical application of science, then it should be useful to extend his (...) of science to technology. The pursuit of impersonal knowledge parallels the quest for efficiency through the standardizing and programming of technique while devaluing personal knowing in the form of embodied skills, institutional memory, and a “feel” for possibilities that leads to insightful breakthroughs. As technological development continues to accelerate and proliferate unsustainably, the idolizing of efficiency operates to subsume other values that would tend to constrain such development, raising concerns about the future of discovery, of the economic and social order, and of the human soul. (shrink)
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    Heidegger’s Critique of Technology and the Contemporary Return to Artisan Business Activity.Eleanor Helms & John Dobson - 2016 - Philosophy of Management 15 (3):203-220.
    So far aesthetics has played a limited role in our understanding of business activity, focused mainly on evaluating product quality and the character qualities (virtues) of the firm that produced them We draw on Heidegger’s fuller account of aesthetic value to show how a firm—like a work of art – can disclose the way human projects and technologies are already at work in a given context. In this way, we show that firms play an essential role in human self-understanding—a role (...)
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  49. Marcuse, Habermas, and the critique of technology.Samir Gandesha - 2004 - In John Abromeit & William Mark Cobb (eds.), Herbert Marcuse: a critical reader. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Formal Bias and Normative Critique of Technology Design.Graeme Kirkpatrick - 2013 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17 (1):25-46.
    Andrew Feenberg’s distinction between formal and substantive bias in the design of technology is interrogated. The two dimensions of his definition—inten­tion and the enhancement of specific social interests—are examined and eight logical possibilities arising from his argument are identified. These possibilities are explored through discussion of examples and it is argued that Feenberg has both: a) not broken sufficiently with substantivist philosophies of technology so that he retains ambivalence on technology’s ‘biased essence,’ and b) illegitimately rejected the idea of a (...)
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