书目名称 | The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts |
编辑 | Peter Kroes,Peter-Paul Verbeek |
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概述 | Traces recent proposals that ascribe some form of moral agency to technology and technical artefacts.Contains a plethora of arguments and counterarguments on the moral status of technology and technic |
丛书名称 | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology |
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描述 | .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 andnon-human elements..The book also investigates technological fields that are subject to negative moral valuations due to the harmful effects of some of their products. It includes an analysis of some difficulties a |
出版日期 | Book 2014 |
关键词 | Agency in humans and artifacts; Artefactual moral agency; Artefactural agency; Artificial agents and th |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7914-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-024-0525-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-7914-3Series ISSN 1879-7202 Series E-ISSN 1879-7210 |
issn_series | 1879-7202 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 |