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Despite numerous publications on the philosophy of technology, little attention has been paid to the relationship between being and value in technology, two aspects which are usually treated separately. This volume addresses this issue by drawing connections between the ontology of technology on the one hand and technology's ethical and aesthetic significance on the other.
The book first considers what technology is and what kind of entities it produces. Then it examines the moral implications of technology. Finally, it explores the connections between technology and the arts.
Contents
Part I: ONTOLOGY.- Chapter 1: What are Technical Artefacts in Patent Practice? A Practice-Based Ontology.- Chapter 2: The Cyberspace Strikes Back: An Ontological Account of Social Networks.- Chapter 3: Cognitive Artifacts Between Cognitive Sciences and the Philosophy of Technology.- Part II: ETHICS.- Chapter 4: Anticipating Sex Robots: A Critique of the Sociotechnical Vanguard Vision of Sex Robots as 'Good Companions'.- Chapter 5: The Right and Unfair Aspects of Artificial Womb Technology.- Chapter 6: Missed Opportunities: Feminist Grounds for Regulating Transnational Surrogacy, in the Anthropocene.- Part III: AESTHETICS.- Chapter 7: Computer Art, Technology, and the Medium.- Chapter 8: Breaking the Fourth Wall in Videogames.- Chapter 9: Games, Artworks, and Hybrids.