The Whale and the Reactor
A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition
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Preface
Acknowledgments
I. A Philosophy of Technology
1. Technologies as Forms of Life
2. Do Artifacts Have Politics?
3. Technē and Politeia
II. Technology: Reform and Revolution
4. Building the Better Mousetrap
5. Decentralization Clarified
6. Mythinformation
III. Excess and Limit
7. The State of Nature Revisited
8. Risk Assessment: A Hazardous Pursuit
9. Brandy, Cigars, and Human Values
10. The Whale and the Reactor
11. Beyond Techno-narcissism: Self and Other in the Digital Public Realm
Notes
Index
Philosophy: General Philosophy
Physical Sciences: History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
Political Science: Public Policy
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