Chapter 15 Self Quiz

. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 20, 1963. According to defenders of the common sense view, he was killed by

Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle.

Lee Harvey Oswald and his rifle.

Lee Harvey Oswald.

someone else.

. The invention of the telephone to help hard of hearing people might be used as an example of

the adage that necessity is the mother of invention.

how we have too many technological mediators governing our communication.

how technological artifacts take on a life of their own beyond the intentions of their designers.

anactant

. Robert Moses is said to have designed bridges with low overpasses

to save on construction costs.

for aesthetic value.

to keep lower class and blacks out who rely on public transportation.

All of the above

. On Winner's view, technological artifacts come to

mediate our activity in the world.

nothing; they are completely inert.

embody values.

reveal standing-reserve.

. The French sociologist Bruno Latour asks us to consider an example in which "the driver modifies his behavior through the mediation of the speed bump: he falls back from morality to force … on the campus road there now resides a new actant that slows down cars." This quote can be used to exemplify the

neutral (or weak) view.

moderateview.

deterministicview.

strong view.

. Which of the following might be an objection to Winner's view?

Technology is active in our lives whether designers intend it or not.

Technology reveals what actions designers have set for us.

Technology determines our actions in accordance with wishes of designers.

Technology cannot hold values unless we know intentions of designer.

. Which of the following views technology and humans as forming hybrid agents?

Winner

Heidegger

Latour

None of the above

. The Chinese government banned Google search engines so as to

prevent users in China from obtaining information that is politically dissident.

prevent users in China searching about Tiananmen Square.

control the information that users can access in China.

All of the above

. Martin Heidegger argues that "an airliner … stands on the taxi strip only as standing-reserve, inasmuch as it is ordered to insure the possibility of transportation." Which of the following is the most plausible interpretation of his claim?

Airplanes reveal activities we can perform.

Airplanes merely give us access to new options.

Airplanes are moral agents.

Airplanes are morally irrelevant objects.

. Illies and Meijers think engineering is special because engineers

determine how reality is mediated through technology.

generate new actants.

reveal the world.

have second order moral responsibilities to increase our morally good options.

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