Feenberg's Beliefs Of Technology
Feenberg believes his Critical Theory of Technology to be the most useful and accurate of his three theories on technology. His critical theory of technology is said to be a combination of the best points of both the substantive and instrumental theories of technology while simultaneously allowing for technological progress.
For the purpose of this paper, I will go into depth on Feenberg’s critical theory of technology; however, in order to understand this theory, we must briefly examine his two other theories of technology, which are the substantive, and the instrumental theories of technology.
Feenberg has three views of technology. They are the instrumental theory, the substantive theory, and the critical theories of technology. The instrumental theory is \"the dominant view of modern governments and the policy sciences on which they rely.\" (Feenberg P. 5) It views technology as inferior to certain values in other societies. The substantive theory \"argues that technology......
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