Technology and Values

Part 1 One: Introduction
Chapter 2 1.1 Overview: Ethical Studies about Technology
Chapter 3 1.2 What Is Moral Philosophy?
Chapter 4 1.3 Technology and Ethical Issues
Chapter 5 1.4 Further Reading
Part 6 Two: Alternative Views of Technology
Chapter 7 2.1 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 8 2.2 Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology
Chapter 9 2.3 Technologies as Forms of Life
Chapter 10 2.4 The Role of Technology in Society
Chapter 11 2.5 Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals
Chapter 12 2.6 The Social Deconstruction of Safety
Chapter 13 2.7 The Political Construction of Technology: A Call for Constructive Technology Assessment
Chapter 14 2.8 Further Reading
Part 15 Three: How to Evaluate Technology
Chapter 16 3.1 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 17 3.2 Frankenstein's Problem: Autonomous Technology
Chapter 18 3.3 Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights
Chapter 19 3.4 Economic Evaluations of Technology
Chapter 20 3.5 Sociological versus Metascientific Views of Technological Risk Assessment
Chapter 21 3.6 Further Reading
Part 22 Four: Case Studies about Technology
Chapter 23 4.1 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 24 4.2 Engineering Design Research and Social Responsibility
Chapter 25 4.3 Ethics and Automobile Technology: The Pinto Case
Chapter 26 4.4 Computers and Privacy
Chapter 27 4.5 Ethics and Military Technology: Star Wars
Chapter 28 4.6 Nuclear Technology and Radioactive Waste
Chapter 29 4.7 Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Pesticide Use
Chapter 30 4.8 Ethical Issues in Human Genome Research
Chapter 31 4.9 A "Transgenic Dinner"? Social and Ethical Issues in Biotechnology and Agriculture
Chapter 32 4.10 Further Reading