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.
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: Vicos 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. Amķlcar 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.
Helena Mateus Jerónimo (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) is a full time tenured assistant professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestćo, 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), Razćo, Tempo e Tecnologia: Estudos em Homenagem a Hermķnio Martins ([ Reason, Time and Technology: Studies in Honour of Hermķnio Martins], Imprensa de Ciźncias Sociais, 2006, co-edited) andQueimar a Incerteza: Poder e Ambiente no Conflito da Co-Incineraēćo de Resķduos Industriais Perigosos ([ Burying Uncertainty: Power and Environment in the Conflict of Co-Incineration of Hazardous Industrial Waste], Imprensa de Ciźncias Sociais, 2010).
