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Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work

Pushing beyond their philosophical concerns, Hickman designs and assembles a set of philosophical tools to cope with technological culture in a new century. His pragmatic treatment of current themes — such as technology and its relationship to the arts, technosciences and technocrats, the role of the media in education, and the meaning of democracy and community life in an age dominated by technology — reveals that philosophy possesses powerful tools for cultural renewal. This original, timely, and accessible work will be of interest to readers seeking a deeper understanding of the meanings and consequences of technology in today's world.

Larry A. Hickman is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is author of Modern Theories of Higher Level Predicates and John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology (Indiana University Press). He has edited Technology as a Human Affair and Reading Dewey (Indiana University Press), and is co-editor (with Thomas Alexander) of The Essential Dewey. He is general editor of the electronic edition of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 and The Correspondence of John Dewey, Volume I: 1871-1918.

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