PRAGMATISM
AND
TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE

FEBRUARY 14, 2003

CARLSON AUDITORIUM

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Program

9:00-10:00
"A Tale of Two Similes"
David White
St. John Fisher College

10:00-11:00
"Dewey, Mitra, and the 'Technological Proletariat:' Democratizing the Information Revolution"
John Hartmann
Southern Illinois University

11:00-12:00
"Pragmatism and the Stem Cell Research Controversy"
Mark Moller
Denison University

12:00-1:00
Lunch

1:00-2:00
"Being and Doing: Dewey's Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Ethics"
James Stieb
Temple University

2:00-3:00
"Technology, Pragmatism, and Mumford"
Shannon Kincaid
Laboratory Institute of Merchandising

3:00-4:00
"The Eclipse of Democratic Experience: Interrogating Face Recognition Technology"
Erik Anderson
Pennsylvania State University

4:00-5:00
"Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture"
Larry Hickman
Director, Center for Dewey Studies
Southern Illinois University

For more information contact John Capps, Department of Philosophy: (585) 475-2464; jmcgsh@rit.edu

For interpreting services please contact Ms. Christina Lopez: cmlgsh@rit.edu

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by
The Department of Philosophy
The College of Liberal Arts
The Office of the Provost