Unit 9: HL extension: Philosophy and contemporary issues
Topic 9.1: Philosophy and technology Questions
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True or false? A stone axe and writing both count as 'technology'.
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Fill the gap: Floridi says a new place to live needs a new ______ — duties of care toward information itself.
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The clash between Kapp and Heidegger is that the SAME closeness of tool and human is:
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Kapp's idea of 'organ projection' says a tool is:
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Fill the gap: on the neutral view, technology is a ______ to whatever end you choose, so only the human is good or bad.
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Marcel's 'loss of the self' is the worry that a person:
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Floridi's 'information ethics' says that:
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For Heidegger, modern technology is above all:
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True or false? Kapp saw technology as alien and threatening to human beings.
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Fill the gap: Heidegger said a dam treats a river as ______-reserve — nature seen as nothing but stockpiled fuel.
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Social constructivism claims that technology and society:
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For Marx, the 'means of production' are:
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True or false? A strong answer treats philosophy as a magic fix that hands over firm answers in time.
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Fill the gap: engineers ask 'can we?'; philosophy's job is to keep alive the question '______ we?'.
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True or false? Floridi thinks we are only occasional visitors to the infosphere, not residents.
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The key difference between social constructivism and Marx is that Marx:
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Heidegger's 'standing-reserve' means seeing nature as:
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To say a technology is 'value-neutral' means that:
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Philosophy's slowness, on the balanced view, is:
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The case FOR philosophy in technology is that it asks the question engineers skip, namely:
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