This volume explores the arrangement of science, technology, society, and education. Using the concept of "feedback loop", this book processes subjects dear to the work of Joseph C. Pitt: technology as humanity at work, pragmatism, Sicilian realism, pragmatist pedagogy, instrumentation in science, and more.

Andrew Wells Garnar earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.

Ashley Shew is assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

Contents

Preface

Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew

1 The Pursuit of Machoflops: the Rise and Fall of High Performance Computing

Anne C. Fitzpatrick

2 The Applicability of Copyright to Synthetic Biology: The Intersection of Technology and the Law

Ronald Laymon

3 A Defense of Sicilian Realism

Andrew Wells Garnar

4 Quasi-fictional Idealization

Nicholas Rescher

5 Technological Knowledge in Disability Design

Ashley Shew

6 The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Critical Self-Reflection

Ivan Guajardo

7 A Celtic Knot, from Strands of Pragmatic Philosophy

Thomas Staley

8 Moral values in technical artifacts

Peter Kroes

9 Engineering Students as Technological Artifacts - Reflections on Pragmatism and Philosophy in Engineering Education

Brandiff R. Caron

10 Gravity and Technology

Allan Franklin

11 Joe Pitt, the Philosophical Imagination, and the Practice of Pedagogy

James H. Collier

Afterword

Joseph C. Pitt