Activist Philosophy of Technology Essays 1989-99 Table of Contents (see below)

   I. Introduction:  A Genuinely Pragmatic Philosophy of Technology

  II. Retrospect and Prospect

 III. How To Deal with Technosocial Problems

  IV. Some Positive Examples

   V. Bioethics as Social Problem Solving

  VI. Engineering Ethics and Social Responsibility

 VII. Is There a Best Ethic of Sustainable Development?

VIII. Excursus:  Graduate Education and Sustainable Development

  IX. Comparative Perspectives

X. Philosophy of Science and Social Responsibility

XI. Epilogue

Original Chapter Titles and Sources

 1. In Defense of a Social-Work Philosophy of Technology
           Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 16 (JAI Press,1999, pp. 3-14.

2. Philosophy of Technology:  A Retrospective and Prospective View
          Forthcoming in Technology and the Good Life?, ed. Andrew Light et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000?).

 3. Ethics, Politics, and Technological Bad Luck
          This paper has not previously been published; it was prepared for the Tenth International Conference of SPT,
          September 1997, and appears in the preprints for that conference.

 4. Pragmatism and Technology
           Published as Pragmatismo y tecnologia in Isegoria: Revista de Filosofia Moral y Politica, no. 12 (October 1995):
           80-91.

 5. Bioethics As Social Problem Solving
           Invited contribution to J. Monagle and D. Thomasma, eds., Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues (Aspen, 1994)
           pp. 419-427; slightly modified for later ed., Health Care Ethics:  Critical Issues for the 21st Century (Aspen, 1998),
           pp. 578-586.

 6. Engineering Ethics and Social Responsibility:  Reflections on Recent Developments in the USA
           Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 17: 2-3 (1997): 77-83.

 7. Can There Be a Best Ethic of Sustainability?
          In J. Martinez Contreras, R. Gutierrez Lombardo, and P. Durbin, eds., Tecnologia, Desarrollo Economico y
          Sustentabilidad: Memorias de la IX Conferencia Internacional de la Society for Philosophy and Technology, Puebla,
          Mexico, 1996.  Special number of Ludus Vitalis: Revista de Filosofia de las Ciencias de la Vida 2(1997): 257-265.

 8. Activist Philosophy of Technology, STS Programs, and Sustainable Development
          In J. Xercavins i Valls, ed., Sostenible? Tecnologia, desenvolupament sostenible I desequilibris (Editorial Icaria and
          Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 1997), pp. 566-571.

 9. Advances in Philosophy of Technology?  Comparative Perspectives
          In E. Agazzi and H. Lenk, eds., Advances in the Philosophy of Technology: Proceedings of a Meeting of the
          International Academy of the Philosophy of Science, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 1997 (Society for Philosophy and
          Technology, 1999), pp. 6-25.

10. Discovering New Worlds
          In E. Lugo, H. Huyke, and W. Frey, eds., Actas de Secundo Congreso Interamericano de Filosofia de la Tecnologia
          (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 1991), pp. 101-121.