New elements of technology

Résumé

L'instauration d'une technologie peut participer à la transformation de l'enseignement dispensé dans le supérieur, et pas seulement dans les spécialités techniques, si on la place comme une véritable science de la technique qui englobe la conception, la créativité, l'innovation et aussi la remise en question d'une certaine conception de la technique.

Contributeur(s)
- Forest, Joëlle.
- Faucheux, Michel (1957-....).
Éditeur(s)
- Université de technologie Belfort-Montbéliard
Date
- 2012
Notes
- En anglais.
Langues
- Anglais
Description matérielle
- 1 vol. (146 p.) : illustrations en noir et blanc ; 22 x 16 cm
Collections
- Sciences humaines et technologie
Sujet(s)
- Technologie -- Étude et enseignement
- Sciences -- Étude et enseignement
ISBN
- 978-2-914279-53-6
Indice
- 62 Techniques, technologie générale
Quatrième de couverture
- This book picks up the question of a science named "techno-logy", a science of technique allowing us to conceive its foundations, forms and issues.
  Its title harks back to Jacob Bigelow's Elements of Technology (1829), a collection of lectures given at Harvard. Bigelow supports an articulation between science and technique in which science focuses on technical applications and in which techniques ('useful arts') feed on scientific advances. We have inherited such a definition of technique which is seen as a neutral, mechanical and transparent application of science and thus masked by it.
  It is precisely this paradigm which we intend to question in this book by sketching the outlines of a technology thought as a science of technique. We think we can develop a scientific knowledge of technique without limiting the latter to a mere application of science.
  We are sure that the instauration of a "techno-logy" can contribute to redesigning the type of education given in engineering universities, placing at its core a true science of technique encompassing design, creativity, innovation and also the critical exercise of a conception of technique.
  Several French researchers from different disciplines have been invited to contribute to this book which is for us the beginning of a dialogue with our English-speaking academic counterparts and a manner of contributing to the distribution of works illustrating a French tradition of reflection on technology.
Tables des matières
- - New Elements of Technology
  - Michel Faucheux/Joëlle Forest
  - Introduction 7
  - The three states of technology: an historical approach to a thought regime, 16th - 20th centuries 11
  - Anne-Françoise Garçon
  - Technology as a tool of knowledge 12
  - Technology as the science of action 16
  - Technology as a regime of thought 21
  - Technique: an interdisciplinary subject with contrasting approaches. An analysis 27
  - Pierre Lamard
  - The influence of institutions 28
  - Shifting paradigms 31
  - The Return of the Humanities 33
  - Technology: general science of operations 37
  - Xavier Guchet
  - Introduction 37
  - Technology as science 40
  - Technology as general science 43
  - Technology as the general science of operations 45
  - Conclusion 46
  - Reflections on technology: a science of creative rationality? 49
  - Michel Faucheux, Joëlle Forest
  - Introduction 49
  - An unthought rationality 50
  - What is creative rationality? 52
  - Creative rationality: consequences for teaching 55
  - Creative rationality: implications for innovation policies 58
  - Conclusion 60
  - Times and prosthesis: introduction to a hermeneutics of amateurism 63
  - Alain Le Méhauté, Dmitrii Tayurskii
  - Introduction 63
  - Prostheses and identity 65
  - Techno-political duality 69
  - Violence and Technology 72
  - Foundations of technological dynamics 79
  - From local to overall and vice versa 80
  - Set theory and non-countable set 86
  - Back to prosthesis: The emergence 89
  - The downward spiral 98
  - Conclusion 100
  - Technology for an inclusive democracy 107
  - Yves-Claude Lequin
  - Technique: a human concept 108
  - Technology and the study of technique 112
  - Understanding technique to make important decisions 118
  - Conclusion: democratic technique to enrich representative democracy 123
  - Thinking about technology 127
  - Dominique Vinck
  - Introduction 127
  - Technology as something evil 127
  - Technology as a component of human reality 131
  - Technology as a social construct 135
  - Technology in the making 138
  - Conclusion 141
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