Pragmatic Technology Readings

Required readings

Bowker, Geoffrey C., & Star, Susan Leigh (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Burke, F. Thomas, Hester, D. Micah, & Talisse, Robert B. (Eds.) (2002). Dewey's logical theory: New studies and interpretations. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

Dewey, John (1938). Experience and education. New York: Collier.

Headrick, Daniel R. (2000). When information came of age: Technologies of knowledge in the age of reason and revolution, 1700-1850. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hickman, Larry A. (1990). John Dewey's pragmatic technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Menand, Louis (2001). The metaphysical club . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Nye, David E. (1990). Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Schon, Donald A., Sanyal, Bish, Mitchell, William J. (Eds.) (1999). High technology and low-income communities: Prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.

West, Cornel (1989). The American evasion of philosophy: A genealogy of pragmatism. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Recommended texts

Carr, W., & Kemmis, S. (1986). Becoming critical: Education, knowledge, and action research. London: Falmer.

Dewey, John (1920). Reconstruction in philosophy. New York: Beacon.

Freire, Paolo (2002). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.

Jones, Steve. CyberSociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and community. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Kramarae, Cheris (1988). Technology and women's voices: Keeping in touch. New York and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Smith, Merritt Roe, & Marx, Leo (Eds.) (1994). Does technology drive history? The dilemma of technological determinism. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Useful additional texts

Ittelson, W. H. (1952). The Ames demonstrations in perception.. princeton: Princeton University Press.

Bentley, Arthur F. (1954). Inquiries into inquiry: Essays in social theory. Boston: Beacon.

Ellul, J. (1973, orig. English, 1964; French, 1954). The technological society (tr. J. Wilkinson). New York: Alfred A Knopf.

Ellul, J. (1980, orig. French, 1977). The technological system (trans. J. Neugroschel). New York: Continuum.

Feenberg, Andrew (2002). Transforming technology: A critical theory revisited. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1994). Truth and method, trans. Joel Weinsheimer & Donald G. Marshall. New York: Continuum.

Hickman, Larry (2001). Philosophical tools for technological culture:ĘPutting pragmatism to work. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Hoy, David Couzens (1993). Heidegger and the hermeneutic turn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Illich, Ivan (1989). Tools for conviviality. Berkeley, CA: Heyday.

Kelley, E. C. (1947). Education for what is real. New York: Harper.

Light, Andrew (Ed.) (1998). Environmental pragmatism: Environmental philosophies. New York: Routledge.

Marx, Karl (1932). The economic and philosophical manuscripts (orig. written 1844; trans. Martin Milligan). In Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 3. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

Moore, A. (1910). Pragmatism and its critics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Noble, David F. (1977). America by design: Science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Plato. Phaedrus. In Benjamin Jowett (1991, trans.) On Homosexuality: Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium. Buffalo: Prometheus.

Powasek, D. M. (2002). Design for community: The art of connecting real people and virtual places. Indianapolis: New Riders.

Rogers, Everett M. (1986). Communication technology: The new media in society. New York: Macmillan Free Press.

Wajcman, Judy (1991). Feminism confronts technology. Cambridge: Polity.

Weizenbaum, Joseph (1976). Computer power and human reason. San Francisco: Freeman.

Wiener, Norbert (1954). Human uses of human beings: Cybernetics and society, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Articles

The following articles are all online. A printed packet can be purchased from TIS Books.

Bishop, A. P., Mehra, B., Bazzell, I., & Smith, C. (2000, June). Socially grounded user studies in digital library development. First Monday, 5 (6).

Bishop, A. P., Bazzell, I., Mehra, B., & Smith, C. (2001, April). Afya: Social and digital technologies that reach across the digital divide, First Monday, 6(4).

Bishop, A. (2000, February). Communities for the new century. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 43(5).

Bruce, B. C. (1997). Literacy technologies: What stance should we take? Journal of Literacy Research, 29(2), 289-309.

Bruce, B. C. (1998, November). Dewey and technology. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 42(3), 222-226.

Bruce, B. C., & Bishop, A. P. (2002, May). Using the web to support inquiry-based literacy development. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 45(8), 706-714.

Bruce, B. C., & Hogan, M. P. (1998). The disappearance of technology: Toward an ecological model of literacy. In D. Reinking, M. McKenna, L. Labbo, and R. Kieffer (Eds.), Handbook of literacy and technology:  Transformations in a post-typographic world (pp. 269-281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Heidegger, Martin (1977). The question concerning technology. In The question concerning technology and other essays(pp. 3-35). William Lovitt, trans. New York: Harper Torchbooks.

Hickman, Larry A. (2002, June 1). Democracy and global citizenship: Creating value by educating for social reform. Presentation at the Boston Research Center.

Kaufman, Walter. The art of reading. In the future of the humanities.

Mcreynolds, Phillip (2002, March 7-10). Community, communication, and emotions: A pragmatic approach to the moral standing of non-human animals. Paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine.

Peirce, Charles S. (1868). Some consequences of four incapacities. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2, 140-157.