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Ethics And Geoengineering: Reviewing The Moral Issues Raised By Solar Radiation Management And Carbon Dioxide Removal, Christopher J. Preston
Ethics And Geoengineering: Reviewing The Moral Issues Raised By Solar Radiation Management And Carbon Dioxide Removal, Christopher J. Preston
Philosophy Faculty Publications
After two decades of failure by the international community to respond adequately to the threat of global climate change, discussions of the possibility of geoengineering a cooler climate have recently proliferated. Alongside the considerable optimism that these technologies have generated, there has also been wide acknowledgement of significant ethical concerns. Ethicists, social scientists, and experts in governance have begun the work of addressing these concerns. The plethora of ethical issues raised by geoengineering creates challenges for those who wish to survey them. The issues are here separated out according to the temporal spaces in which they first arise. Some crop …
I Miss The Hungry Years: Coping With Abundance, Albert Borgmann
I Miss The Hungry Years: Coping With Abundance, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Information technology is a marvel of ingenuity and engineering. Itʹs been widely admired and used; itʹs being advanced by inventiveness and competition; and itʹs being promoted by politicians and education experts. But there has also been research and discussion of the liabilities of information technology. The abundance of information has not, as one might have expected, made people generally more attentive and knowledgeable. On the contrary, distraction and ignorance are spreading. That has to worry people in higher education.
Orientation In Technological Space, Albert Borgmann
Orientation In Technological Space, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Traditional Culture And Global Commodification, Albert Borgmann
Traditional Culture And Global Commodification, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
We can think of technology and Christianity as competing forms of life. Technology promises a life of ever greater liberty and prosperity where liberty is the liberation from the limits and burdens of the human condition and prosperity is the variety and refinement of pleasures. Christianity bears the good news of salvation, the assurance that the coming of Christ has enabled us to live a life of grace and love that is affirmed by eternal life in the presence of God.
Digital Law Vs. Analog Lawyers, Albert Borgmann
Digital Law Vs. Analog Lawyers, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Lawyers are conflicted and confused about the role technology plays in their lives, and their attempts at clarification that I’m familiar with have been thoughtful for the most part, but not successful. Most lawyers do understand that technology can be a problem either as the subject or as the background of their practice. It’s their subject when they litigate issues of electronic surveillance or copyright infringements on the Internet. It’s the background of their practice when they use a computer, a cell phone, or PowerPoint.
Cyberspace, Cosmology, And The Meaning Of Life, Albert Borgmann
Cyberspace, Cosmology, And The Meaning Of Life, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
When on the Tuesdays before Thanksgiving only about half of my students in the large introductory ethics class show up, I reward the faithful with the promise to reveal the meaning of life. The announcement is always met with a ripple of laughter-a mixture of incredulity, curiosity, and good humor. The meaning of life, I say, cannot be borrowed, bought, or manufactured. It has to be discovered. And how do you discover it? Why, you use the meaning-of-life-locator. And what is that?
Technology As A Cultural Force: For Alena And Griffin, Albert Borgmann
Technology As A Cultural Force: For Alena And Griffin, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
To various degrees, the citizens of the advanced industrial countries are suffering from a crisis that is as profound as it is vague and therefore hard to deal with. The problem is particularly acute in the United States, however, and in what follows, some of the illustrations pertain particularly to that country, the one I live in and know best. In any case, though vagueness obscures the crisis, there have to be symptoms of some sort; otherwise we would not feel troubled. What are the signs of trouble in the culture of technology and democracy? First there are economic problems …
Review Of Peter-Paul Verbeek's What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections On Technology, Agency, And Design, Albert Borgmann
Review Of Peter-Paul Verbeek's What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections On Technology, Agency, And Design, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The three parts of What Things Do reflect the three phases of philosophy of technology.
La Tecnología Y La Búsqueda De La Felicidad, Albert Borgmann
La Tecnología Y La Búsqueda De La Felicidad, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The connection between technology and happiness is a challenge to philosophy. It can be met if we understand technology as the process of commodification that is guided by a characteristic pattern-the device paradigm, and if we distinguish between happiness as the consumption of pleasures and moral excellence as the devotion to focal things and practices. These clarifications and distinctions allow us relocate and redeem pleasure and to envision a life wherein pleasure and virtue are joined to yield genuine happiness.
The Promise And Threat Of Nanotechnology: Can Environmental Ethics Guide Us?, Christopher J. Preston
The Promise And Threat Of Nanotechnology: Can Environmental Ethics Guide Us?, Christopher J. Preston
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The growing presence of the products of nanotechnology in the public domain raises a number of ethical questions. This paper considers whether existing environmental ethics can provide some guidance on these questions. After a brief discussion of the appropriateness of an environmental ethics framework for the task at hand, the paper identifies a representative environmental ethic and uses it to evaluate four salient issues that emerge from nanotechnology. The discussion is intended both to give an initial theoretical take on nanotechnology from the perspective of environmental ethics and to provide a clear indication of the direction from which environmental resistance …
Technology And Trust, Albert Borgmann
Technology And Trust, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
We think of trust as the animating spirit of a prosperous society. Trust makes promises workable, credit extendable and contracts reasonable. If you try to make trust dispensable through a system of fail-safe controls, you end up with a stultifyingly cumbersome apparatus, and the cost of handling things would exceed the price of producing them. If there is no trust at all in the person who is buying a 50p ballpoint pen, you have to frisk the person to make sure he or she is not planning a hold-up, ascertain their identity by checking their fingerprint or retina, get at …
Kinds Of Pragmatism, Albert Borgmann
Kinds Of Pragmatism, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
It is hard to appreciate now what a liberating and invigorating force John Dewey's philosophy must have been. He did away with imperious dichotomies and absolutes, reconnected philosophy with the sciences, confronted technological revolutions, attended to the perils
The Headaches And Pleasures Of General Education, Albert Borgmann
The Headaches And Pleasures Of General Education, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
General education is one of the glories of American higher education; it is one of its major headaches as well. The concern for general education highlights some of the distinctive virtues of American universities and colleges. First it illustrates the ability to be open to different traditions and to forge them into something new. Liberal education, the older and still widely used term for general education, is the bequest of British higher education where it was taught to an elite of young gentlemen, destined for careers in politics and the professions. The notion of the well‐rounded gentleman in turn goes …
Response To My Readers, Albert Borgmann
Response To My Readers, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
I hope no one is disappointed when I say right at the start that I basically agree with my critics. Not all is irenic, of course, and in philosophy it should not be. What distinguishes the philosophical from the poetic or the narrative discourse is the expectation of questions and objections. Much as I appreciate Myron Tuman's generous remarks on the occasionally poetic quality of Holding On to Reality (henceforth Holding), I have always enjoyed the give and take of philosophical exchanges though I have tried, over the years, to be gentler in giving and stronger in taking. There are …
The Moral Complexion Of Consumption, Albert Borgmann
The Moral Complexion Of Consumption, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Vigorous consumption is the sign of a prosperous and confident society. Some critics, however, find a high level of consumption morally objectionable. To see what is valid in these objections, one needs to understand the connection between consumption and the characteristic pattern of technology that is highlighted by the device paradigm and gives rise to paradigmatic consumption. Such consumption induces disengagement from reality and a decline of excellence. The response to these debilities is to accept paradigmatic consumption in some areas of life and to make room for focal things and practices in others. Research is needed to determine the …
Deep Ecology And Natural Resource Industries: Some Lessons From A Fishing Boat, Christopher J. Preston
Deep Ecology And Natural Resource Industries: Some Lessons From A Fishing Boat, Christopher J. Preston
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Commercial fishing is one natural resource industry that has so far almost escaped the attention of the deep ecology movement. In this paper I will bring fishing into the debate. However, rather than write as a supporter of the deep ecology platform making certain recommendations about how fishermen ought to behave, I write as a part-time Alaskan fisherman who is familiar with the platform but anticipates conflicts between the platform and his trade. By reversing the usual direction of critique I hope to emphasize that the practical task of changing the way the industrialized world does business can only be …
Information And Reality At The Turn Of The Century, Albert Borgmann
Information And Reality At The Turn Of The Century, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry By E. F. Byrne, Albert Borgmann
Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry By E. F. Byrne, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Workers need a voice. Not that the poor and the powerless of our society altogether lack advocacy. But you require a special and politically correct grievance to capture the media and gain a hearing.
Review Of Heidegger's Confrontation With Modernity: Technology, Politics, And Art By Michael E. Zimmerman, Albert Borgmann
Review Of Heidegger's Confrontation With Modernity: Technology, Politics, And Art By Michael E. Zimmerman, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Michael Zimmerman has composed this book in two voices. One is the clear and generous voice that we have heard for two decades and that has made Zimmerman the foremost expositor of Heidegger in the English language....The second voice is bitterly critical of Heidegger and responds to the recent discussion of Heidegger's entanglements in reactionary and fascist politics.
Review Of Edward G. Ballard, Man And Technology. Toward The Measurement Of A Culture And Of Donald M. Borchert And David Stewart, Eds., Being Human In A Technological Age, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The two books under review pursue separately what an appropriate philosophy of technology must accomplish: the articulation of an incisive and unified vision of the world on the one hand and on the other the consideration of the variety of ways in which technology shapes our lives and the search for fruitful counterforces to technology. Ballard's book attends to the first task, Borchert's and Stewart's anthology to the second. The two books also demonstrate that one task taken up without the other cannot be accomplished satisfactorily.
The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In Technological Civilization, Albert Borgmann
The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In Technological Civilization, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The title of the book which seems to promise an essay in the philosophy of technology may be misleading since the avowed purpose of the book is to present "a study of contemporary philosophy" which is at the same time "an attempt at a connected argument for freedom".
Review Of: Intentionality And The Problem Of The Unconscious, Albert Borgmann
Review Of: Intentionality And The Problem Of The Unconscious, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of: Sense, Understanding And Reason (A Digest Of Kant's First Critique), Albert Borgmann
Review Of: Sense, Understanding And Reason (A Digest Of Kant's First Critique), Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.