上游充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY 2006 Contents Philosophy of Technology: Introduction An Introduction 1 Philosophy of Science and Technology 6 2 What Is Technology?Defining or Characterizing Technology 26 3 Technocracy 38 4 Rationality,Technological Rationality,and Reason 53 5 Phenomenology,Hermeneutics,and Technology 70 6 Technological Determinism 84 7 Autonomous Technology 105 Val Dusek 8 Human Nature:Tool-making or Language? 2 Women,Feminism,and Technology 136 10 Non-Western Technology and Local Knowledge 156 11 Anti-technology:Romanticism,Luddism,and the Ecology Movement 176 Blackwell Publishing 12 Social Constructionism and Actor-network Theory 198 Bibliography 211 Index 2342006