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141. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Christine A. James Review of Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, by Robert Figueroa and Sandra Hardin
142. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Stephan F. Johnson Review of Philosophy of Science and Race, by Naomi Zack
143. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
John P. Manoussakis Review of “Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death and the West”, by Domenico Losurdo, trans. Marella and Jon Morris
144. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Robert Luyster Review of The Birth of Tragedy, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Clifton P. Fadiman
145. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Jari I. Niemi Review of Michel Foucault, by Barry Smart
146. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Luke Purshouse Review of Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study, by Stan Godlovitch
147. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Walter Ott Review of Meaning, Knowledge and Reality, by John McDowell
148. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Julie Ragatz Review of Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy, ed. Aristide Tessitore
149. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Steven Ross Review of The Art Question, by Nigel Warburton
150. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
John Rudisill Review of The Law of Peoples with ‘The Idea of Public Reason Revisited’, by John Rawls
151. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Steven Schroeder Review of Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception, ed. Alva Noë and Evan Thompson
152. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Jonathan J. Sanford Review of Teleology and the Norms of Nature, by William J. Fitzpatrick
153. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Steven Schroeder Review of Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings, ed. Daniel J. Levitin
154. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Niall Shanks Review of Demons of the Modern World, by Malcolm McGrath. Foreword by Robert A. Baker
155. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Donald Sievert Review of Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy, by Patricia Smith Churchland
156. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Robert Stecker Review of Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality,, by Ronald Dworkin
157. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Mark Silcox Review of Rule-Following and Realism, by Gary Ebbs
158. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Candace L. Upton Review of Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions, by Paul Sheldon Davies
159. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 5 > Issue: 1
Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert Review of German Idealism. The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801, by Frederick Beiser
160. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Steven Benko Ethics, Technology, and Posthuman Communities
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As long as technology has been interpreted as an expression of practical reasoning and an effort to alter the conditions of human existence, ethical language has been used to interpret and critique technology’s meaning. When this happens technology is more than implements that are expressions of human intelligence and used towards practical ends in the natural world.1 As Frederick Ferre points out, technology is always about knowledge and values—what people want and what they want to avoid—and to the extent that technology increases power, one has to ask whether technology and/or the use towards which it is put is ethical.2 The ethicality of technology is based on whether that technology threatens or enhances the good for human beings. Therefore, any understanding of technology is never removed from ethics. Beyond the ethical evaluation of technology, technology is critiqued in light of whether it enhances or diminishes what it means to be human.