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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen, Vincent F. Hendricks
May 2009
Beginner
592 pages
22h 39m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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References and Further Reading

Coutard, O. (ed.) (1999). Governing Large Technical Systems (London: Routledge).

Coutard, O., Hanley, R. and Zimmerman, R. (eds) (2005). Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems (London: Routledge).

Elzen, B., Geels, F. and Green, K. (eds) (2004). System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

Hoogma, R., Kemp, R., Schot, J. and Truffer, B. (2002). Experimenting for Sustainable Transport: The Approach of Strategic Niche Management (London: SPON).

Hughes, T. P. (1983). Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society 1880–1930 (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Hughes, T. P. (1987). “The Evolution of Large Technological Systems,” in W. E. Bijker et al. (eds), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 51–82.

Hughes, T. P. (1998). Rescuing Prometheus (New York: Pantheon).

La Porte, T. (ed.) (1991). Social Responses to Large Technical Systems: Control or Anticipation (Dordrecht: Kluwer).

Mayntz, R. and Hughes, T. P. (eds) (1988). The Development of Large Technical Systems (Frankfurt: Campus).

Summerton, J. (ed.) (1994). Changing Large Technical Systems (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press).

van der Vleuten, E. (2006). “Understanding Network Societies: Two Decades of Large Technical System Studies,” in E. van der Vleuten and A. Kaijser (eds), ...

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