1989-1990
ARCHIVED EVENTS

Leon Kass
(University of Chicago), "What is the Problem of Technology?"

James H. Nichols, Jr.
(Claremont McKenna College), "Technology in Classical Thought: Prometheus Bound or Unbound?"

Response: Stephen Esquith (James Madison College, Michigan State University)

Stanley L. Jaki
(Seton Hall University), "Medieval Christianity: Its Inventiveness in Technology and Science"

Response: David K. Scott (Michigan State University)

Paul Cantor
(University of Virginia), "Romanticism and the Conquest of Nature"

Response: Victor N. Paananen (Michigan State University)

CONFERENCE

“The Destiny of Modern Technology”

THEME

“The Problem of Technology in The Western Tradition”

“The Emergence of Modern Technology”

1990 CONFERENCE:

The Destiny of Modern Technology

Paper: G.A. Cohen (Oxford University), "Marx’s Technolgical Fix"
Response: Michael Gillespie (Duke University)

Paper: Sheldon Wolin (Princeton University), "The Frankfurt School and the Critique of Instrumental Reason"
Response: Steven Smith (Yale University)

Paper: Reiner Schurmann (New School for Social Research), "Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology"

Paper: Gianni Vattimo (University of Turin), "Philosophy and Technology: Ideas for An Ontology of Late Modernity"
Response: Robert Pippin (University of California, San Diego)

Paper: William Galston (University of Maryland), "Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Technology"
Response: Yaron Ezrahi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Paper: Jerry Weinberger (Michigan State University), "Technology and the Problem of Liberal Democracy"
Response: Tracy Strong (University of California, San Diego