New perspectives on technology, values, and ethics: theoretical and practical

Intro -- Prologue New Account for Technology and Its Relation to Values and Ethics Wenceslao J. Gonzalez -- I Contributions to New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics -- II Dealing with Rationality and Responsibility in Technology -- III Theoretical and Practical Orientations on Technology and Risks -- IV On the Present Interest in Technological Doings -- Contents -- Part I: New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics -- Chapter 1: On the Role of Values in the Configuration of Technology: From Axiology to Ethics -- 1.1 Technology and the Framework for Considering Values -- 1.1.1 Values in the Structural Dimension -- 1.1.2 Values in the Dynamic Perspective -- 1.2 Axiology of Technology -- 1.2.1 The Role of "Internal" Values in Technology -- 1.2.2 The Task of "External" Values in Technology -- 1.3 Ethics of Technology -- 1.3.1 The Endogenous Perspective on Ethics of Technology -- 1.3.2 The Exogenous Viewpoint of Ethics of Technology -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Values in Engineering and Technology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Final Versus Instrumental and Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Value -- 2.3 The Neutrality Thesis -- 2.4 Internal Values -- 2.4.1 Technological Enthusiasm -- 2.4.2 Effectiveness and Efficiency -- 2.4.3 Other Internal Engineering Values -- 2.5 External Values -- 2.5.1 Safety and Health -- 2.5.2 Human Well-Being -- 2.5.3 Sustainability -- 2.5.4 Other External Values -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Values Regarding Results of the Information and Communication Technologies: Internal Values -- 3.1 Accessibility -- 3.2 Versatility -- 3.3 Efficacy -- 3.4 Efficiency -- References -- Part II: Rationality and Responsibility in Technology -- Chapter 4: Rationality in Technology and in Ethics -- 4.1 Rationality and Its Diverse Contents -- 4.2 Engineering and Ethical Rationality.