Portuguese Philosophy of Technology

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.

Features a range of approaches to topics within the philosophy of technology in Portugal, Brazil, and Africa Explores themes such as technological dependence and national strategies of development Details perspectives that are not usually available in English-language collections

Auteur

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) and Queimar 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).

Contenu

1. Introduction: Pathways in the Philosophy of Technology in the Portuguese-Speaking Community.- Part I Modern Technology and Aporias of Progress.- 2. António Sérgio: Critical Rationalism and Technology.- 3. The God of Artefacts: Vico's Principle and Technology.- 4. Technique, Readiness-to-Hand and Development.- 5. Three Essays on Technique, the Artificial and the New Human.- 6. Technology and the Lifeworld in Miguel Baptista Pereira.- 7. Amílcar Cabral: Technology, Agriculture and Colonialism.- Part II Technology, Risk and Values.- 8. Riscophrenia: The Risk Fallacy and the Repression of Uncertainty.- 9. Four Visions of Technology.- 10. The Specificity of Technological Knowledge.- 11. Lost in Translation: Ethics and Engineering Practice.- 12. Critique of the Western Technological Hegemony and Neo-Animism in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho.- Part III Technoscene and Postmodern World.- 13. Mediatization: From Gutenberg to Unlimited Media and Datafication.- 14. The Virtualization of the Archive.-15. Law-Technology Lag or 'Law as Technology' in the Big Data Age.- 16. Ontotechnologies of the Body: Technoperformativity and Processes of Subjectivation.- 17. Solidary Technoscience: A Concept for the Philosophy of Technology.- 18. Commercially-Oriented Technoscience and the Need for Multi-Strategic Research.