[Commlist] New book: Distracted - A Philosophy of Cars and Phones

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Distracted***

A Philosophy of Cars and Phones

*Robert Rosenberger***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517916565/distracted/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517916565/distracted/>_*

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*Applying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the 
urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted driving.*

Although the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many 
people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And 
connectivity features in new cars have only made using technology behind 
the wheel more tempting. What will it take to change people’s minds and 
behavior? Robert Rosenberger contends that a better understanding of why 
this combination of technologies is so dangerous could effectively 
adjust both habits and laws.

Rosenberger brings together ideas from philosophy and cognitive science 
to leverage a postphenomenological perspective that reveals how our 
smartphones make us such bad drivers. Reviewing decades of empirical 
studies in cognitive science, he shows that we have developed habits of 
perception regarding our compulsive technology use—habits that may wrest 
our attention away from the road.

/Distracted/develops innovative concepts for understanding 
technology-related habits and the ways that our relationships to our 
devices influence how we perceive the world. In turn, these ideas can 
help drivers be more cognizant of the effect that smartphone usage has 
on their perceptions, better inform efforts to enact stricter 
regulations, and help us all to be more reflective about the 
technologies that shape our lives.

*Robert Rosenberger*is associate professor in the School of Public 
Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the 
Society for Philosophy and Technology. He is author of /Callous Objects: 
Designs against the Homeless/(Minnesota, 2017), editor of /The Critical 
Ihde/, and coeditor of /Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on 
Human–Technology Relations/and /Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to 
Read Technology/.

*University of Minnesota Press**| June 2024 | 296pp | 9781517916565 | PB 
| £24.99**

*Price subject to change.

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