1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703583803321

Autore

Pendleton Elizabeth A.

Titolo

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hydrographic survey data used in a U.S. Geological Survey regional geologic framework study along the Delmarva Peninsula / / by Elizabeth A. Pendleton [and four others] ; prepared in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 18 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2014-1262

Soggetti

Hydrographic surveying - Delmarva Peninsula

Geology - Delmarva Peninsula

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 28, 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 4-7).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438336203321

Titolo

Norms in technology / / Marc J. de Vries, Sven Ove Hansson, Anthonie W.M. Meijers, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, c2013

ISBN

1-283-86567-X

94-007-5243-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Philosophy of engineering and technology, , 1879-7202 ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

VriesMarc J. de <1958->

HanssonSven Ove <1951->

MeijersAnthonie

Disciplina

607

Soggetti

Technology - Moral and ethical aspects

Normativity (Ethics)

Technology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Normativity in technological knowledge and action -- pt. 2. Normativity and artefact norms -- pt. 3. Normativity and technological risks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a distinctive fusion of philosophy and technology, delineating the normative landscape that informs today’s technologies and tomorrow’s inventions. The authors examine what we deem to be the internal norms that govern our ever-expanding technical universe. Recognizing that developments in technology and engineering literally create our human future, transforming existing knowledge into tomorrow’s tools and infrastructure, they chart the normative criteria we use to evaluate novel technological artifacts: how, for example, do we judge a ‘good’ from a ‘bad’ expert system or nuclear power plant? As well as these ‘functional’ norms, and the norms that guide technological knowledge and reasoning, the book examines commonly agreed benchmarks in safety and risk reduction, which play a pivotal role in engineering practice. Informed by the core insight that, in technology and engineering, factual knowledge relating, for example, to the properties of materials or the load-bearing characteristics of



differing construction designs is not enough, this analysis follows the often unseen foundations upon which technologies rest—the norms that guide the creative forces shaping the technical landscape to come. The book, a comprehensive survey of these emerging topics in the philosophy of technology, clarifies the role these norms (epistemological, functional, and risk-assessing) play in technological innovation, and the consequences they have for our understanding of technological knowledge.