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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

Canguilhem, G. (1985). La connaissance de la vie (Paris: J. Vrin).

Canguilhem, G. (1988). Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, trans. A. Goldhammer (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). Originally published as Idéologie et retionalité dans l’histoire des sciences de la vie: Nouvelles etudes d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (Paris: J. Vrin, 1977).

Cooper, G. J. (2003). The Science of the Struggle for Existence: On the Foundations of Ecology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Cronon, W. (1983). Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang).

Davis, M. (2001). Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (London/New York: Verso).

Diamond, J. (1999). Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: Norton).

Elvin, M. (2004). The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China (New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press).

Ferguson, E. S. (1992). Engineering and the Mind’s Eye (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).

Gillispie, C. C. (1951). Genesis and Geology: The Impact of Scientific Discoveries upon Religious Beliefs in the Decades before Darwin (New York: Harper Torchbooks).

Kunstler, J. H. (2005). The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Grove Press).

Lansing, J. S. (1991). Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the ...

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