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Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics

By Carl Mitcham

Book information

Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Year
2005
ISBN
0028658337, 9780028658339, 0028658310, 0028658329, 0028658345, 0028659015
Open Library ID
OL15578945M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13456958 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
649\649
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics has had multiple origins. It was when contributing an article on the philosophy of technology to the pioneering first edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1978), that I began to dream of a more general encyclopedic introduction to issues of technology and ethics. Inspired by the perspective of scholars as diverse as Jacques Ellul and Hans Jonas, bioethics appeared only part of a comprehensive need to grapple intellectually with the increasingly technological world in which we live. This idea was pursued in a state-of-the-field chapter on ‘‘Philosophy of Technology’’ in A Guide to the Culture of Science, Technology, and Medicine (1980) edited by one of my mentors, Paul T. Durbin. Thus when Stephen G. Post, the editor of the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2004), suggested to Macmillan the idea of a more general ‘‘Encyclopedia of Technoethics,’’ with me as potential editor, I was primed to be enthusiastic— although I also argued that the field should now be expanded to include ethics in relation to both science and technology.

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