Carl Mitcham
Biographic Data
| ID | 172970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Mitcham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitcham |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHAM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado School of Mines |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4199-5940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond ecological modernization
Crouching Predictions, Hidden Hopes
The article presents an historico-philosophical narrative of developments in the philosophy of technology across four generations: (1) the late 1800s work of such figures as Ernst Kapp and Karl Marx, (2) the mid-20th century analysis of technology as a challenge to the lifeworld by such thinkers as José Ortega y Gasset, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Ellul, (3) a pragmatist, empirical turn by late twentieth century US American and Dutch philosophe…
Brief for Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell
Reviewed by: Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology by Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí Carl Mitcham (bio) Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology By Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí. Washington, DC: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. x + 245. This book is an analytic biography, from the perspective of cultural sociology, of Bertrand Russell as a public intellectual engaged with the promises and pe…
Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Classic European Philosophy of Technology?
Classic European philosophy of technology is the original effort to think critically rather than promotionally about the historically unique mutation that is anchored in the Industrial Revolution and has since progressively transformed the world and itself. Three representative contributions to this pivotal philosophical project can be found in texts by Alan Turing, Jacques Ellul, and Martin Heidegger. Despite having initiated analytic, sociologi…
Taking Responsible Innovation to China
Before the Crane Took Flight
Political Philosophy of Technology
Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Enhancing Engineering Ethics
The Gene-Edited Babies Controversy in China
The concept of field philosophy challenges a common self-understanding in Western philosophy. One question regarding this challenge is the extent to which it might be relevant to a philosophical and cultural tradition other than that in which it originated. The birth of gene-edited babies in late 2018 in Shenzhen and subsequent response within China offer an occasion for considering such a question. A narrative review, emphasizing how discussions…
Sinology with Engineering Characteristics
Jue Hou’s study of interactions between computer engineers and Chinese script reformers in the 1970s enriches growing STS and China studies interest in Chinese engineering. It can also make a distinctive sinological contribution to contemporary efforts to develop the field of comparative philology
David Blockley, Creativity, Problem Solving and Aesthetics in Engineering
Science policy and democracy
Section 1. Staking Out a Territory
L'Adieu
The Ethics of Technology
Liu Zeyuan's philosophy of engineering and technology
Thinking about Technology
Reviewed by: Thinking about Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Realityby Gil Germain Carl Mitcham (bio) Thinking about Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality. By Gil Germain. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. 161. Hardcover $90. This is an unpretentious book in nine concise chapters that grew out of a series of lectures for a large undergraduate general education class. It aims to restate what has been called a …
Philosophy of Engineering, East and West
Energy Ethics Outside the Box
He is widely recognized as a contributor to the philosophy of science-technology-engineering and is currently at work on a book about the philosophy of engineering. He also reads widely in an effort to make philosophically relevant connections between different approaches to thinking in a world that is now trying to figure out how to live with its love of and worries about energy. Indeed, he had a number of recent books at hand as we proceeded in…
Philosophy of Engineering, East and West
Nanoethics and Policy Education
Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century
Exploring Qualitatively-Derived Concepts
Analytic induction is a sacred tenet of qualitative inquiry. 1 Therefore, when one begins a project focusing on concept of interest (rather than allowing the concepts to emerge from the data per se), how does one maintain a valid approach? When commencing inquiry with a chosen concept or phenomena of interest, rather than with a question from the data per se about what is going on, how does one control deductive tendencies to see what one desires…
The concept of sustainable development
A historico-ethical perspective on engineering education
In the United States, professional ethics has become a standard part of engineering education. Such educational practice has an intellectual history that invites critical reflection. This article constitutes one such reflection, oriented not so much toward historical knowledge or the production of more engineers as toward developing a critical appreciation of engineering from a broad historico-ethical perspective. The argument advances through th…
Political Philosophy of Technology
Science, Technology, and Society
Qualitative Science Policy
Qualitative research struggles against a tide of quantitative methods. To assist in this struggle, it is useful to consider the historical and philosophical origins of quantitative methods as well as criticisms that have been raised against them. Although these criticisms have often been restricted to discussions in the philosophy of science, they have become increasingly prominent in debates regarding science policy. This article thus reviews cu…
The plea for balance in the public funding of science
Symposium Conclusion - Issues of Validity
Qualitative inquiry that commences with the concept, rather than the phenomenon itself, is subject to violating the tenet of induction, thus is exposed to particular threats of invalidity. In this symposium, using the examples of the concepts of uncertainty, trust, vulnerability and suffering, and interview and videotaped data, we discuss strategies to maintain the inductive thrust, and hence validity, during data analysis. The authors present th…
From the Philosophy of Information to the Philosophy of Information Culture
The contemporary world is experiencing an ongoing cultural change, made both distinctive and far-reaching by the centrality of information and information technologies. In light of this development, we propose a research path in the philosophy of information that could be called the philosophy of information culture(s). After a brief survey of the idea of culture, we reflect on the interrelationships between information and culture. We focus on t…
Embedding and networking
The historical and philosophical development of engineering ethics in Germany
Computers
Philosophy and Technology
Research in Philosophy and Technology. Vol. 2
Technology and Values in American Civilization
Industrial and Engineering Ethics
The Liberal Arts in a High Tech Society
The Liberal Arts in a High Tech Society
Computers
Theology and Technology
Sts and Technological Literacy
Science and the Military
In search of a new relation between science, technology, and society
Philosophy and Technology II
Introduction: Technology and Computers as Themes in the Philosophy of Technology.- I/The Metaphysical and Epistemological Character of Information.- Measurement and Technology: A Myth of the Twentieth Century.- Technologies as Vehicles of Evolution.- The Theory-ladenness of Information.- Does Not Make Sense - Or: The Relevance Gap in Technology and Its Social Dangers.- Information in Epistemological and Ontological Perspective.- II/Philosophical …
Narrative Experiments
Narrative Experiments
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 459 result in technologies directed at “optimization rather than maximi zation,” “cultivation [rather than] manipulation,” and “differentiation rather then centralization” (p. 134). This latter has the ring of new-age gobbledygook but fortunately is not typical of the book. The best sections of this text are the ones on defining technology and on the differences between theoretical and practical intelligence. …
Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol. 9
Instrumental Realism
Instrumental Realism
652 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE and complement, original documentation delineating the networks of power, politics, and decision making that defined the relationships of science, technology, and society in postwar America. David DeVorkin Dr. DeVorkin, curator of the history of astronomy and the space sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, is currently on leave at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princet…
The historical and philosophical development of engineering ethics in Germany
Thinking through Technology
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The concept of sustainable development
Technology in Applied Ethics
The Argument of Tools for Conviviality and Beyond
Technology in the Western Political Tradition
Philosophy of Technology in Spanish Speaking Countries
Edesao de la tecnolo Authors and Issues in Philosophy of Technology in the Spanish-Speaking World, C. Mitcham. Part I: From Chile - Technology and Politics: Toward Artificial History? M. Gar de la Huerta Globalization: Homogenization with and Increasing Gap, M. Gara de la Huerta Thinking Machines and the Crisis of Modern Reason, E. Sabrovsky Ethics, Science, and Technology, C. Verdugo. Part II: From Costa Rica - Contributions to the Philosophy of…
Sociology (53 works) · Philosophy (45 works) · Political science (42 works) · Epistemology (41 works) · Engineering (39 works) · Engineering ethics (31 works) · Law (27 works) · Computer Science (23 works) · Social science (18 works) · Environmental ethics (16 works)