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Feedback Loops
Series page
Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Scienceand Technology
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
The Pursuit of Machoflops
Notes
References
Chapter 2
The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology
The Essentials of Patent and Copyright Law
Synthetic Biology and the Analogy with Computer Programming
A Fundamental Disanalogy between Computer Source Code and the DNA Sequences of Synthetic Biology
Merger, Synthetic Biology, and the Complications That Arise
Summary and Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3
A Defense of Sicilian Realism
A Simplified Version of a Complicated Idea
The Sellarsian Challenge
The Myth of Simplicity
A Sellarsian Rejoinder
Theory, Practice, and Realism
Technology and Realism
Teachers and Students
Notes
References
Chapter 4
Quasi-fictional Idealization
The General Idea
Machinery
Typical
Normal
Ordinal/Usual
Average
On Perfection and Its Exclusions by Merit Complementarity
Optimal
The Use of Idealizations
Note
Reference
Chapter 5
Technological Knowledge in Disability Design
Introduction
Disability Activism, Simulation, Community, and Expertise
Technological Knowledge
Technological Knowledge in Disability Community
Afterword and Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6
The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection
Pitt on Neutrality
SNS and the Ethic of Personalization
SNS and Epistemic Bubbles
Epistemic Bubbles and Responsiveness to Reasons
Pitt's Common Sense Approach to Technological Problems
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7
A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy
Note
References
Chapter 8
Moral Values in Technical Artifacts
Pitt's Defense of the Value Neutrality Thesis
Critique of Pitt's defense
Technical Artifacts with Values and Inherent Moral Significance
Discussion
Notes
References
Chapter 9
Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts
Notes
References
Chapter 10
Gravity and Technology
Falling Bodies
Henry Cavendish, the Density of the Earth, and G, the Universal Gravitational Constant
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11
Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy
Notes
Feedback Loops
Series page
Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Scienceand Technology
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
The Pursuit of Machoflops
Notes
References
Chapter 2
The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology
The Essentials of Patent and Copyright Law
Synthetic Biology and the Analogy with Computer Programming
A Fundamental Disanalogy between Computer Source Code and the DNA Sequences of Synthetic Biology
Merger, Synthetic Biology, and the Complications That Arise
Summary and Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3
A Defense of Sicilian Realism
A Simplified Version of a Complicated Idea
The Sellarsian Challenge
The Myth of Simplicity
A Sellarsian Rejoinder
Theory, Practice, and Realism
Technology and Realism
Teachers and Students
Notes
References
Chapter 4
Quasi-fictional Idealization
The General Idea
Machinery
Typical
Normal
Ordinal/Usual
Average
On Perfection and Its Exclusions by Merit Complementarity
Optimal
The Use of Idealizations
Note
Reference
Chapter 5
Technological Knowledge in Disability Design
Introduction
Disability Activism, Simulation, Community, and Expertise
Technological Knowledge
Technological Knowledge in Disability Community
Afterword and Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6
The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection
Pitt on Neutrality
SNS and the Ethic of Personalization
SNS and Epistemic Bubbles
Epistemic Bubbles and Responsiveness to Reasons
Pitt's Common Sense Approach to Technological Problems
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7
A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy
Note
References
Chapter 8
Moral Values in Technical Artifacts
Pitt's Defense of the Value Neutrality Thesis
Critique of Pitt's defense
Technical Artifacts with Values and Inherent Moral Significance
Discussion
Notes
References
Chapter 9
Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts
Notes
References
Chapter 10
Gravity and Technology
Falling Bodies
Henry Cavendish, the Density of the Earth, and G, the Universal Gravitational Constant
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11
Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy
Notes