Philosophy of Technology in Spanish Speaking Countries

I From Chile.- Technology and Politics: Toward Artificial History?.- Globalization: Homogenization with an Increasing Technological Gap.- Thinking Machines and the Crisis of Modern Reason.- Ethics, Science, and Technology.- II From Costa Rica.- Contributions to the Philosophy of Technology in Costa Rica.- Science, Technology, and Development: Some Models of Their Relationship.- Ethics, Pernicious Technology, and the "Technological Argument".- III From Mexico.- Technology and Basic Needs: Proposal for a Debate on Fundamental Criteria.- On Technique.- Technological Objects and Their Epistemological Base.- Satellites and Our Morality.- IV From Spain.- Technology and Human Nature.- Philosophy, Technology, and Society.- Does Technology "Construct" Scientific Reality?.- The Design and Evaluation of Technologies: Some Conceptual Issues.- From World3 to the Social Assessment of Technology: Remarks on Science, Technology, and Society.- Genethics: The Social Assessment of the Risks and Impacts of Genetic Engineering.- V From Venezuela.- Science, Technology, History, and Philosophy in the Cultural Atmosphere of Our Time.- The Present and Future of Humanity.- Education for Freedom versus Socio-Technical Control by Pedagogical Means.- VI From Other Americas.- Two Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Technics and Their Meaning for Latin America.- Science, Technology, and Society Education in the Latin American Context.- The Moral Vision of Technology in Contemporary Latin American Fiction.- The Social Implications of Information Technologies: A Latin American Perspective.- Notes on Contributors.- Name Index.