Books

NOTE: This is the final list of books we will be reading for this course.

Bazerman, Charles. The Languages of Edison's Light. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Borgmann, Albert. Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.
Fuller, Steve. The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. New York: Harper Perennial, 1982.
Hickman, Larry. Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2001.
Hughes, Thomas P. Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.
Mitcham, Carl. Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Verbeek, Peter-Paul. What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design. College Station, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.

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Articles

Ellul, Jacques. "The Technological Order." Philosophy and Technology. Eds. Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey. New York: Free Press, 1972. 86-105.
Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Latour, Bruno. "Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts." Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Eds. Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. 225-58.
Miller, Carolyn. "Opportunity, Opportunism, and Progress: Kairos in the Rhetoric of Technology." Argumentation 8 (1994): 81-96.
Winner, Langdon. "Social Constructivism: Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty." Science as Culture 16 (1993): 427-52.

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