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Portuguese Philosophy of Technology

Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community
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This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil. Their contributions detail a unique perspective on technology, placing this important topic within the historical, ideological and social contexts of their countries, all of which share a common language. The shared history of these countries and the cultural and economic specificities of each one have stimulated singular insights into these thinkers’ reflections. The essays are thematically diverse. Among the topics covered are technogenic knowledge, visions of technology, risks and uncertainties, mediatization, digitalization, and datafication, engineering practice and ethics, alternative technoscientific strategies, ontotechnologies of the body, virtual and archive. The contributions also explore other themes that are more closely related to the semi-peripheral world, such as technological dependence and the incorporation of Western technology into the social structure of ancestral communities. This book appeals to students and researchers and provides a voice to authors whose work are not usually available in English-language publications. It serves as an ideal guide for all those who seek rigorous and geographically widespread knowledge regarding thinking on technology in several Portuguese-speaking countries.

Author Biography:

Helena Mateus Jerónimo (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) is a full time tenured assistant professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade de Lisboa [ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon], Portugal, and researcher at Advance/CSG. Her research interests and publications are in science and technology, sustainability, risk and uncertainty, and in human resource management and organisational behaviour. Helena served on the Executive Board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) from 2013 to 2017. She is currently a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST). Her books include Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century (Springer, 2013, co-edited), Razão, Tempo e Tecnologia: Estudos em Homenagem a Hermínio Martins ([Reason, Time and Technology: Studies in Honour of Hermínio Martins], Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006, co-edited) andQueimar a Incerteza: Poder e Ambiente no Conflito da Co-Incineração de Resíduos Industriais Perigosos ([Burying Uncertainty: Power and Environment in the Conflict of Co-Incineration of Hazardous Industrial Waste], Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2010).
Release date NZ
November 24th, 2022
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Helena Mateus Jeronimo
Edition
1st ed. 2023
Illustrations
VI, 336 p.
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9783031146299
Product ID
35979800

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