Philosophy of Technology
Andrew Feenberg
Spring 2003
This course will introduce philosophy of technology through literature, major texts in the Continental tradition, and recent approaches to technology studies.
Articles in Reader:
Pinch and Bijker, "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts"
Habermas, “Technology and Science as ‘Ideology’”
Latour, “Where are the Missing Masses?”
Foucault, “Truth and Power,” “The Subject and Power”
Feenberg, “Democratic Rationalization”
Feenberg, “Marcuse and the Critique of Technology”
Heidegger, “Traditional Language and Technological Language”
Dreyfus, “Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology”
Books:
Heidegger, Basic Writings
Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
Feenberg,
Questioning Technology
Huxley, Brave
Bellamy, Looking Backward
Reading List
1.
Feenberg, “Democratic Rationalization,” Feenberg, Questioning Technology, preface, chap. 1
2.
Bellamy, Looking Backward
3.
Huxley, Brave
4. Heidegger, “Traditional Language and Technological Language,” Dreyfus, “Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology,” Feenberg, Questioning Technology, chap. 8
5. Heidegger,
Basic Writings, “The Question
Concerning Technology”
6. Heidegger,
Basic Writings, “The Origin of the
Work of Art,” “Building Dwelling Thinking”
7. Marcuse,
One-Dimensional Man
8. Marcuse,
One-Dimensional Man
9. Habermas, “Technology and Science as ‘Ideology,’” Feenberg, Questioning Technology, chap. 7
10. Foucault, “Truth and Power,” “The Subject and Power”
11. Pinch and Bijker, "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts," Latour, “Where are the Missing Masses?”
12.
Feenberg, Questioning Technology,
chaps. 2-4
13.
Feenberg, Questioning Technology,
chaps. 5,6,9