By Marcos I. García de la Huerta (auth.), Carl Mitcham (eds.)
ISBN-10: 9401048363
ISBN-13: 9789401048361
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This quantity grew out of the adventure of the 1st Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of know-how, October 1988, prepared via the heart for the Philosophy and background of technological know-how and expertise of the college of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez. The Spanish-language complaints of that convention were released in Carl Mitcham and Margarita M. Peiia Borrero, with Elena Lugo and James Ward, eds., El nuevo mundo de los angeles filosofta y l. a. tecnolog(a (University Park, PA: STS Press, 1990). This quantity comprises thirty-two papers, twenty-two summaries, an creation and biographical notes, to supply an entire checklist of that seminal accumulating. Discussions with Paul T. Durbin and others - together with many that participated within the moment Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of expertise, collage of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez, March 199- raised the chance of an English-language lawsuits within the Philosophy and expertise sequence. yet after due attention it used to be agreed extra common quantity was once had to introduce English-speaking readers to a starting to be physique of literature at the philosophy of know-how within the Spanish-speaking international. As such, the current quantity comprises Spanish in addition to Latin American authors, historic and modern figures, a few who did and plenty of who didn't perform the 1st and moment inter-American congresses.
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From Loeb Classical Library). But this argument to exclude artisans from judgment is unsatisfactory, particularly if we consider that contemporary technologies are much more threatening than ancient ones, and certainly more hazardous than the participation of artisans as citizens. THE FOREGROUND OF THE SCIENCES OF ADMINISTRATION The ethical and political invalidation of manual laborers in Greek thought is one of the most significant issues for modern political philosophy. It is this which established at an early stage the dominance of theoretical knowledge, which in turn provides the conceptual basis and fundamental inspiration for the modern technocratic legitimation of power - although the "technostructure" (Galbraith) remains its functional and organizational basis.
Politics, raised to the condition of theory, invalidates citizen participation, or rather disables whoever is not a theorist. 12 MARCOS GARCIA DE LA HUERTA In the classic form of this invalidating-disabling exclusion, public virtue is deemed to pertain solely to the citizen who practices the theory, for the knowledge associated with technai remains purely operational. In the modern form, all those not initiated into expert knowledge are equally excluded, for only specialists can be responsible for decisions of a technical or scientific nature - the government being no longer a political one.
Another Spanish version: "La pregunta por la tecnica, " trans. Adolfo P. Carpio, Epoca de Filosofla, vol. I, no. 1 (1985), pp. 7-29; reprinted, Anthropos, supplement 14: "Tecnologia, ciencia, naturaleza y sociedad" (1989), pp. 617. 4. The most readily available presentation of Flores's thought can be found in Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987). 5. In this respect it is perhaps also worth noting that the book, Heidegger and Nazism, trans.
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