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After having dealt with the first challenge in the previous chapter, this chapter focuses on the second challenge: conceptualizing different forms of technological mediation to understand how technologies alter human action on a more detailed level. Meeting this challenge calls for reformulating Bruno Latour’s mediation theory so as to incorporate insights from Alasdair MacIntyre as outlined in the previous chapter. Most important in this respect is MacIntyre’s notion of practices, his idea of being biologically vulnerable and socially interdependent, and his distinction between practical reasoning and having reasons.
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Waelbers, K. (2011). Human Practices in Technological Contexts. In: Doing Good with Technologies:. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1640-7_5
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