<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, all,<div><br></div><div>There will be a new course offered this spring on the Philosophy of Technology. The professor is a philosopher, Svetozar Minkov, who will be visiting MIT for the spring term. Might be of interest for some of you.</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>Dave<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">SP.2H2</span></font></b> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Readings</span></b></st1:city></st1:place><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> in the Philosophy of Technology</span></b> </span></span></font></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><img width="302" height="9" id="_x0000_i1025" alt="______" src="cid:image001.gif@01C97C35.28287220"><br><img width="16" height="16" id="_x0000_i1026" alt="Undergrad" title="Undergrad" align="bottom" src="cid:image002.gif@01C97C35.28287220">(<img width="16" height="16" id="_x0000_i1027" alt="Spring" title="Spring" align="bottom" src="cid:image003.gif@01C97C35.28287220">)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img width="16" height="16" id="_x0000_i1028" alt="HASS Elective" title="HASS Elective" align="bottom" src="cid:image004.gif@01C97C35.28287220"><br>Prereq: None<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Units: 3-0-9<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/editcookie.cgi?add=SP.2H2" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font color="#0066ff"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 255); text-decoration: none; "><img border="0" width="16" height="16" id="_x0000_i1029" alt="Add to schedule" title="Add to schedule" align="bottom" src="cid:image005.gif@01C97C35.28287220"></span></font></a>TBA.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><img border="0" width="302" height="9" id="_x0000_i1030" alt="______" src="cid:image001.gif@01C97C35.28287220"><br>Surveys various conceptions of the nature of science and society and how they relate to each other. Examines fundamental alternative views through the works of Aristotle, Bacon, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Weber. Topics include goals, meaning, beneficence, and manipulability of nature and human nature; the relation between wisdom, power, goodness, and happiness; and the character and direction of modern politics and science.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">S. Minkov<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">_________________________________</span></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>David Kaiser<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:dikaiser@mit.edu">dikaiser@mit.edu</a><br>Associate Professor<br>Program in Science, Technology, & Society<br>and Lecturer, Department of Physics<br>Building E51-185<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>Cambridge, MA 02139 USA<br>Phone: 617 452-3173<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Fax: 617 258-8118<br><a href="http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www">http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>