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Val Dusek
Philosophy of science and technology -- What is technology?: defining or characterizing technology -- Technocracy -- Rationality, technological rationality, and reason -- Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and technology -- Technological determinism -- Autonomous technology -- Human nature: tool - making or language? -- Women, feminism, and technology -- Non - western technology and local knowledge -- Anti-technology: romanticism, Luddism, and the ecology movement -- Social constructionism and actor - network theory