Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology: Broad and Narrow Interpretations (Philosophy and Technology, 7)

BACKGROUND: DEPARTMENTS, SPECIALIZATION, AND PROFESSIONALIZATION IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION For over half of its history, U.S. higher education turned out mostly cler­ gymen and lawyers. Looking back on that period, we might be tempted to think that this meant specialized training for the ministry or the practice of law. That, however, was not the case. What a college education in the U.S. prepared young men (almost exclusively) for, from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 through the founding of hundreds of denominational colleges in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, was leadership in the community. Professionalization and specialization only began to take root, and then became the dominant mode in U.S. higher education, in the period roughly from 1860--1920. In subsequent decades, that seemed to many critics to signal the end of what might be called "education in wisdom," the preparation of leaders for a broad range of responsibilities. Professionalization, specialization, and departmentalization of higher education in the U.S. began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 In Search of a New Prometheus....Pages 3-15 Defining Horizons: A Reply to Joseph C. Pitt....Pages 17-23 Process Themes in Frederick Ferré’s Philosophy of Technology ....Pages 25-35 Clarifying and Applying Intelligence: A Reply to Peter Limper....Pages 37-41 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Imagination for Engineering Ethicists....Pages 45-51 Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination....Pages 53-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Computer and World Picture: A Critical Appraisal of Herbert A. Simon....Pages 67-86 Changes in Cognitive and Value Orientations in System Design....Pages 87-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Democratic Socialism and Technological Change....Pages 101-123 Philosophy, Engineering, and Western culture....Pages 125-152 Alternatives for Evaluating the Effects of Genetic Engineering on Human Development....Pages 153-166 The Alarmist View of Technology....Pages 167-180 An Interpretation of Jacques Ellul’s Dialectical Method....Pages 181-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-196