03687nam 2200649 a 450 991043833620332120250923201103.01-283-86567-X94-007-5243-110.1007/978-94-007-5243-6(CKB)2670000000309528(EBL)1030725(OCoLC)821883198(SSID)ssj0000811499(PQKBManifestationID)11433725(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811499(PQKBWorkID)10851057(PQKB)10875708(DE-He213)978-94-007-5243-6(MiAaPQ)EBC1030725(PPN)168340364(EXLCZ)99267000000030952820121120d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNorms in technology /Marc J. de Vries, Sven Ove Hansson, Anthonie W.M. Meijers, editors1st ed. 2013.Dordrecht ;New York Springerc20131 online resource (237 p.)Philosophy of engineering and technology,1879-7202 ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.94-007-9816-4 94-007-5242-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Normativity in technological knowledge and action -- pt. 2. Normativity and artefact norms -- pt. 3. Normativity and technological risks.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.Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,1879-7210 ;9TechnologyMoral and ethical aspectsNormativity (Ethics)TechnologyPhilosophyTechnologyMoral and ethical aspects.Normativity (Ethics)TechnologyPhilosophy.607Vries Marc J. de1958-309007Hansson Sven Ove1951-767519Meijers Anthonie1848597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438336203321Norms in technology4435742UNINA