This Subject Includes

  • Course No: HS 124
  • Course: B.Tech
  • Semester: IV
  • Title: Philosophical Issues In A Technological Age
  • Stream: Philosophy
  • Technology: meaning, philosophy and value; technology, community and culture: work, leisure, technophobia and technocracy; technology and democracy; technology and rural development: need for organizational renewal; technology and the environment: the virtual neighborhood; technology, art and music; technology and health; technology, humanism and post humanism; feminist critiques of technology; technology and alienation.

    Texts

    1 Arnold Pacey, Meaning in Technology, MIT, 1999.

    2. Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey. Philosophy and Technology: Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Technology ,Free Press, 1983.

    References

    1. Lewis Mumford, Art and Technics ,Columbia University Press, 2000.

    2. Craig Hans (ed.),Technology and Values: Essential Readings,Chichester:WilleyBlackwell,2010.