Technology and Equality - Hardcover

by Sven Ove Hansson (Editor), Colleen Murphy (Editor)

Analyzing the roles technology plays in growing global inequalities, this collection combines theory with case studies to expose causes and correlations, as well as potential solutions. Contributing scholars provide perspectives from history, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, and philosophy.

Author Biography

Sven Ove Hansson is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of six scholarly books and editor of eleven and he has published around 380 papers in refereed international journals and books.
Colleen Murphy is a professor in the College of Law with courtesy appointments in philosophy and political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also directs the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in the Illinois Global Institute. She is the author of three books, co-editor of three volumes, and has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters.