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Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:
January 2021
Print publication year:
2005
Online ISBN:
9789048503841
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048503841
Subjects:
Philosophy of Science, Popular Science, Philosophy, General Science
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Though the old saying claims that man is the measure of all things, the authors of Inside the Politics of Technology argue that the distinction implied between autonomous humans and neutral instruments of technology is an illusion. On the contrary, the technologies humans create simultaneously shape humans themselves.

By means of case studies of technologies as diverse as video cameras, electric cars, pregnancy tests, and genetic screenings, this volume considers the implications of this co-production of technology and society for our philosophical and political ideas. Are only humans endowed with social.

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