| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Philosophy of engineering and technology |
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Philosophy of engineering and technology.
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Introduction : the moral status of technical artefacts / Peter Kroes and Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Agency in humans and in artifacts : a contested discourse / Carl Mitcham -- Towards a post-human intra-actional account of sociomaterial agency (and morality) / Lucas D. Introna -- Which came first, the doer or the deed? / F. Allan Hanson -- Some misunderstandings about the moral significance of technology / Peter-Paul Verbeek -- "Guns don't kill, people kill"; values in and/or around technologies / Joseph C. Pitt -- Can technology embody values? / Ibo van de Poel and Peter Kroes -- From moral agents to moral factors : the structural ethics approach / Philip Brey -- Artefactual agency and artefactual moral agency / Deborah G. Johnson and Merel Noorman -- Artefacts, agency, and action schemes / Christian F.R. Illies and Anthonie Meijers -- Artificial agents and their moral nature / Luciano Floridi -- The good, the bad, the ugly ... and the poor : instrumental and non-instrumental value of artefacts / Maarten Franssen -- Values in chemistry and engineering / Sven Ove Hansson |
| Summary |
This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors' contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance of technology. The editors' introduction explains that as 'agents' rather than simply passive instruments, technical artefacts may actively influence their users, changing the way they perceive the world, the way they act in the world and the way they interact with each other. This volume features the work of various experts from around the world, representing a variety of positions on the topic. Contributions explore the contested discourse on agency in humans and artefacts, defend the Value Neutrality Thesis by arguing that technological artefacts do not contain, have or exhibit values, or argue that moral agency involves both human and non-human elements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Engineering design -- Philosophy
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Technology -- Philosophy.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Technology -- Philosophy
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Technology -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Verbeek, Peter-Paul, 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789400779143 |
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9400779143 |
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9400779135 |
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9789400779136 |
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