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  • Thinking through Technology

    The Path between Engineering and Philosophy

    by Carl Mitcham ...
    What does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a comprehensive, critical introduction to the philosophy of technology and a discussion of its sources and uses.Tracing the changing meaning of "technology" from ancient times to our own, Mitcham identifies the most important traditions of critical analysis of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theology and Technology, Volume 2

    Essays in Christian Exegesis and Historical Theology

    Edited by Carl Mitcham, Jim Grote, Levi Checketts ...
    Originally published nearly forty years ago as a spiritual successor to Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey's Philosophy and Technology, the essays collected in the two volumes of Theology and Technology span an array of theological attitudes and perspectives providing sufficient material for careful reflection and engagement. The first volume offers five general attitudes toward technology based off ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theology and Technology, Volume 1

    Essays in Christian Analysis

    Edited by Carl Mitcham, Jim Grote, Levi Checketts ...
    Originally published nearly forty years ago as a spiritual successor to Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey's Philosophy and Technology, the essays collected in the two volumes of Theology and Technology span an array of theological attitudes and perspectives providing sufficient material for careful reflection and engagement. The first volume offers five general attitudes toward technology based off ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering

    Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays

    by Carl Mitcham ...
    The rise of classic Euro-American philosophy of technology in the 1950s originally emphasized the importance of technologies as material entities and their mediating influence within human experience. Recent decades, however, have witnessed a subtle shift toward reflection on the activity from which these distinctly modern artifacts emerge and through which they are engaged and managed, that is, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century

    Edited by Helena M. Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • AI Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue

    Edited by Guoyu Wang, Carl Mitcham, Alfred Nordmann ...
    Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of research on the ethics, epistemology, governance, and policies related to artificial intelligence (AI) and its adjacent technologies. Each chapter can be read independently, yet together they provide a detailed and complementary understanding of some of the most pressing issues brought about by AI and digital innovation. Given its modular nature, this ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities

    Have Their Conversations Come of Age?

    Edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Anders Buch, Eddie Conlon, Christelle Didier, Carl Mitcham, Mike Murphy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values

    Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 2

    Edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Engineering, East and West

    Edited by Carl Mitcham, Bocong LI, Byron Newberry, Baichun ZHANG ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This co-edited volume compares Chinese and Western experiences of engineering, technology, and development. In doing so, it builds a bridge between the East and West and advances a dialogue in the philosophy of engineering. Divided into three parts, the book starts with studies on epistemological and ontological issues, with a special focus on engineering design, creativity, management, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • International Perspectives on Engineering Education

    Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1

    Edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context. In so doing the book offers a reflection on contextual boundaries with an overall boundary crossing ambition and juxtaposes important cases of critical participation within engineering education with sophisticated scholarly reflection on both opportunities and discontents.Whether and in what way ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Technology in Spanish Speaking Countries

    Edited by Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume grew out of the experience of the First Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of Technology, October 1988, organized by the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez. The Spanish-language proceedings of that conference have been published in Carl Mitcham and Margarita M. Peiia Borrero, with Elena Lugo and James Ward, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Engineering, Development and Philosophy

    American, Chinese and European Perspectives

    Edited by Yanming An, Bocong Li, Carl Mitcham, Steen Hyldgaard Christensen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture. It offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary perspectives on how the philosophies of today’s cultural triumvirate—American, European and Chinese—are shaped and given nuance by the cross-fertilization of engineering and development. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences as ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD