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Responsible Technology
A Christian Perspective
Stephen Monsma (ed), Eerdmans
This book provides a multi-disciplinary Christian analysis of the forces shaping the operation of modern technology, and offers an alternative framework of biblically-rooted normative principles. It argues that technology is a value-laden activity and presents principles for basing it on God's will.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Understanding Technology
Important Reasons to Understand Technology
The Task at Hand
Chapter 2 Technology Examined: Definitions and Distinctions
Definitions: Confusion and Conflicts
Technology Defined
Chapter 3 Is Technology Neutral?
The Supposed Neutrality of Technology
The Value-Ladenness of Technology
Conclusions
Chapter 4 The Cultural Mandate and Modern Technology
Humankind as Formers of Culture
Four Lines in Human History
Technicism
Exiles in Babylon
Chapter 5 A Guide to Responsible Technology
A Theory of Normativity
A Structure of Normative Principles
Chapter 6 Technology and Science
The Science-Technology Relationship: The Conventional View
A Historical Perspective
Characteristics of Modern Technology
The Hegemony of Science in Technology
Chapter 7 Technology and Economics
Two Views of Economic Activity
Economic Valuing
The Effects of Technology on Economic Relationships
Economics, Technological Choice, and Technological Change
Chapter 8 Technology and the State
The State
Government and Technological Practices and Institutions
Barriers to a Proper Relationship
From Technicism to Biblically Based Normative Principles
Chapter 9 A Design Philosophy
Technological Design: An Introduction
A Holistic Approach
Normative Principles for Design
Design Specifications
Sufficient Design
Chapter 10 Design and Fabrication in Practice
Intrinsic Characteristics
Extrinsic Barriers to Sufficient Design
An Illustration of Responsible Design
Chapter 11 Prophetic Witness to a Technicistic Society
The Nature of Prophetic Witness
Basic Themes of the Message
Activating the Conscience
Chapter 12 Technology and Mutual Responsibility
The Nature of Responsibility
Strategies for Implementing Collective Responsibility
Position-specific Responsibility
Recommended Reading
This book provides a multi-disciplinary Christian analysis of the forces shaping the operation of modern technology, and offers an alternative framework of biblically-rooted normative principles. It argues that technology is a value-laden activity and presents principles for basing it on God's will.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Understanding Technology
Important Reasons to Understand Technology
The Task at Hand
Chapter 2 Technology Examined: Definitions and Distinctions
Definitions: Confusion and Conflicts
Technology Defined
Chapter 3 Is Technology Neutral?
The Supposed Neutrality of Technology
The Value-Ladenness of Technology
Conclusions
Chapter 4 The Cultural Mandate and Modern Technology
Humankind as Formers of Culture
Four Lines in Human History
Technicism
Exiles in Babylon
Chapter 5 A Guide to Responsible Technology
A Theory of Normativity
A Structure of Normative Principles
Chapter 6 Technology and Science
The Science-Technology Relationship: The Conventional View
A Historical Perspective
Characteristics of Modern Technology
The Hegemony of Science in Technology
Chapter 7 Technology and Economics
Two Views of Economic Activity
Economic Valuing
The Effects of Technology on Economic Relationships
Economics, Technological Choice, and Technological Change
Chapter 8 Technology and the State
The State
Government and Technological Practices and Institutions
Barriers to a Proper Relationship
From Technicism to Biblically Based Normative Principles
Chapter 9 A Design Philosophy
Technological Design: An Introduction
A Holistic Approach
Normative Principles for Design
Design Specifications
Sufficient Design
Chapter 10 Design and Fabrication in Practice
Intrinsic Characteristics
Extrinsic Barriers to Sufficient Design
An Illustration of Responsible Design
Chapter 11 Prophetic Witness to a Technicistic Society
The Nature of Prophetic Witness
Basic Themes of the Message
Activating the Conscience
Chapter 12 Technology and Mutual Responsibility
The Nature of Responsibility
Strategies for Implementing Collective Responsibility
Position-specific Responsibility
Recommended Reading
A Christian Perspective
Eerdmans
19 July 1986
264 pages.
$60.00
0802801757
978-0802801753
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Level of Complexity:
Intermediate Level: Intermediate.
264 pages.
Publication date: 19 July 1986
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ISBN-10: 0802801757. ISBN-13: 978-0802801753
