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20In search of an integrative vision for technology: interdisciplinary studies in information systems (edited book)Springer. 2006.In Search Of An Integrative Vision For Technology will stimulate its readers to consider the 'whole story that is information systems' within the context of an integrative vision of technology. It integrates disparate areas of debate and research while appreciating the contribution that philosophy can make to such thinking. It is deliberately broad in coverage, and designed to provide useful pointers so that researchers, students, practitioners, and developers can easily apply each point as need…Read more
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51The problem of development and the decontextualization of technology: A world‐system approach1World Futures 52 (3): 333-346. 1998.The decontextualization of technology has paved the way for an enormous dynamics of development. Modern technology, freed from restraining bonds to specific cultures, has undergone unprecedented extension and growth. The dynamics of technological development has sucked the whole of society and culture into a maelstrom of change. At the very moment during recent decades that the value of the world's varied cultures and societies was being discovered, modern technology was invading them on a globa…Read more
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32Ethics for an age of social transformation I: Framework for an interpretationWorld Futures 46 (3): 133-143. 1996.
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35Science and the University in a 'Cultureless Time': The need and possibilities for EthicsWorld Futures 51 (3): 269-286. 1998.One of the most striking phenomena of our time is the climate of uncertainty and confusion about fundamental norms and values. It has even been observed that the movement of modern science and technology has eroded the foundations from which norms could be derived. Meanwhile, in this time of confusion ethics is observed to be blossoming as never before in our universities. This paper addresses the question how assured we can be that a hefty dose of ethics in science and the university is an appr…Read more
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26From our side: emerging perspectives on development and ethics (edited book)UNISA Press. 2008.Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the contribution of the Christian faith to matters of development and ethics.
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38Ethics for an age of social transformation II: The idea of a systems ethicsWorld Futures 46 (3): 145-155. 1996.
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3Systems thinkingIn Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein & Carl Mitcham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Oxford University Press. pp. 453. 2010.
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11De taak van de universiteit. Wijsgerige opstellen over de universiteit. Onder redactie van Mevrouw A. Th. Brüggemann-Kruyff. Van Gorcum, Assen/Amsterdam, 1978 (review)Philosophia Reformata 44 (2): 194-197. 1979.
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4Het technische wereldbeeld: een wijsgerig onderzoek van het systeemdenkenBuijten & Schipperheijn. 1988.
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44Ethics and the Systematic Character of Modern TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 3 (4): 160-169. 1998.A distinguishing feature of today’s world is that technology has built the house in which humanity lives. More and more, our lives are lived within the confines of its walls. Yet this implies that technology entails far more than the material artifacts surrounding us. Technology is no longer simply a matter of objects in the hands of individuals; it has become a very complex system in which our everyday lives are embedded. The systemic character of modern technology confronts us with relatively …Read more
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