Distracted: A Philosophy of Cars and Phones

＂Bringing together ideas from philosophy and cognitive science, Distracted leverages a postphenomenological perspective to reveal how our smartphones make us such bad drivers. Robert Rosenberger shows that we have developed habits of perception regarding our compulsive technology use-habits that may wrest our attention away from the road-and contends that a better understanding of why this combination of technologies is so dangerous could effectively adjust both habits and laws＂--

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.