TY - CHAP
T1 - The Idea of Progress
AU - Sarewitz, Daniel
PY - 2009/4/24
Y1 - 2009/4/24
KW - Idea of progress
KW - Idea of progress - carrying with it an inherent contestability, a commitment to progress bound up in human action
KW - Ideas of progress addressing three types of non-trivial goals or endpoints - first is truth, as approached by religious insight, philosophical reasoning, or scientific inquiry
KW - Science and technology - offering a stable frame of reference from which directional change - progress - could be recognized and measured
KW - Scientific truth does make itself strongly felt in human affairs - not as truth qua truth, but through its embodiment in technology
KW - Technological change - creating losers as well as winners, whose jobs and skills are displaced by machines with enhanced functionality and autonomy
KW - Technology's evolution through time moving away from simplicity, transparency, closedness and discreteness toward complexity, inaccessibility, ubiquity, interconnectedness
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444310795.ch51
DO - 10.1002/9781444310795.ch51
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84890984627
SN - 9781405146012
SP - 303
EP - 307
BT - A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -