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Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1...Message; 1.2...Some Important Concepts for Further Investigations; 1.3...Examples of Non-paradigmatic Episteme of Technology; 1.4...Concern of a Technician When Reading Texts on Philosophy of Technology; 1.5...A Review of Contents of the Book; References; Part IEpistemological Observations; 2 Preface: New Epoch, It's Conceptual Platform and Episteme; 2.1...Preface; 2.2...New Epoch with Its Conceptual Platform and Episteme; 2.3...Main Elements of a New Conceptual Platform; References; 3 What is ''Technology''?; 3.1...Introduction: Basic Definitions
3.2...Three Different Epistemai3.3...Selected Views of Philosophy of Technology; 3.4...The Feedback Relation of Strict Sciences and Technology; 3.5...Two Loops of Positive Feedback; 3.6...The Problem of Responsibility for Socio-economic Applications of Technology; 3.7...What will be the Technology of Knowledge Civilization Era?; 3.8...New Warnings: What Should We Pay Attention to?; 3.9...Conclusions; References; 4 Delays in Technology Development: Their Impact on the Issues of Determinism, Autonomy and Controllability of Technology; 4.1...Introduction
4.2...The Stages of the Processes of Creation, Production and Use of Technology Products: Tools and Artefacts4.3...Conclusions for Philosophy of Technology and Humanist Education; 4.4...Forecast and Foresight of Technology Development; 4.5...Breakthrough Inventions and Everyday Innovations; References; 5 Rational and Evolutionary Technical Theory of Intuition; 5.1...Introduction; 5.2...Technical and Evolutionary Explanation of Intuition; 5.3...Rational and Evolutionary Definition of Intuition; 5.4...A Model of a Creative Intuitive Decision Process
5.5...Further Conclusions of the Rational Evolutionary Theory of IntuitionReferences; 6 Problems of Metaphysics, Truth and Objectivity; 6.1...Metaphysics of Fundamental Naturalism; 6.2...Truth Versus Hermeneutic Horizon and Perspective; 6.3...Scepticism, Feedback and Naturalism; 6.4...Evolutionary Creation of Knowledge and a New Episteme; References; Part IIElements of Recent Historyof Information Technologies; 7 Telecommunication, Radio Broadcasting, Television; 7.1...Beginnings of Telecommunication, Radio Broadcasting, Television: Important Events
7.2...Social and Conceptual Importance of Telecommunications7.3...The Social and Conceptual Importance of Broadcast Telecommunication, Radio and Television; 7.4...Some Disciplines Related to Telecommunications: Radar Technologies, Biomedical Engineering, Laser and Optical Fibre Technologies; 7.4.1 Radar Technology; 7.4.2 Biomedical Engineering; 7.4.3 Laser and Optical Fibre Technologies; References; 8 Automatic Control, Analog Computers, Robotics: The Concept of Feedback; 8.1...Introduction: Important Events; 8.2...Analog Computers and Automatic Control; 8.3...Robotics and Automation
3.2...Three Different Epistemai3.3...Selected Views of Philosophy of Technology; 3.4...The Feedback Relation of Strict Sciences and Technology; 3.5...Two Loops of Positive Feedback; 3.6...The Problem of Responsibility for Socio-economic Applications of Technology; 3.7...What will be the Technology of Knowledge Civilization Era?; 3.8...New Warnings: What Should We Pay Attention to?; 3.9...Conclusions; References; 4 Delays in Technology Development: Their Impact on the Issues of Determinism, Autonomy and Controllability of Technology; 4.1...Introduction
4.2...The Stages of the Processes of Creation, Production and Use of Technology Products: Tools and Artefacts4.3...Conclusions for Philosophy of Technology and Humanist Education; 4.4...Forecast and Foresight of Technology Development; 4.5...Breakthrough Inventions and Everyday Innovations; References; 5 Rational and Evolutionary Technical Theory of Intuition; 5.1...Introduction; 5.2...Technical and Evolutionary Explanation of Intuition; 5.3...Rational and Evolutionary Definition of Intuition; 5.4...A Model of a Creative Intuitive Decision Process
5.5...Further Conclusions of the Rational Evolutionary Theory of IntuitionReferences; 6 Problems of Metaphysics, Truth and Objectivity; 6.1...Metaphysics of Fundamental Naturalism; 6.2...Truth Versus Hermeneutic Horizon and Perspective; 6.3...Scepticism, Feedback and Naturalism; 6.4...Evolutionary Creation of Knowledge and a New Episteme; References; Part IIElements of Recent Historyof Information Technologies; 7 Telecommunication, Radio Broadcasting, Television; 7.1...Beginnings of Telecommunication, Radio Broadcasting, Television: Important Events
7.2...Social and Conceptual Importance of Telecommunications7.3...The Social and Conceptual Importance of Broadcast Telecommunication, Radio and Television; 7.4...Some Disciplines Related to Telecommunications: Radar Technologies, Biomedical Engineering, Laser and Optical Fibre Technologies; 7.4.1 Radar Technology; 7.4.2 Biomedical Engineering; 7.4.3 Laser and Optical Fibre Technologies; References; 8 Automatic Control, Analog Computers, Robotics: The Concept of Feedback; 8.1...Introduction: Important Events; 8.2...Analog Computers and Automatic Control; 8.3...Robotics and Automation