Moralizing Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moralizing Technology write by Peter-Paul Verbeek. This book was released on 2011-12-01. Moralizing Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology plays such an active role in shaping our daily actions and decisions, it is crucial, Peter-Paul Verbeek argues, that we consider the moral dimension of technology. Moralizing Technology offers exactly that: an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, Peter-Paul Verbeek locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines. Verbeek cites concrete examples, including some from his own life, and compellingly argues for the morality of things. Rich and multifaceted, and sure to be controversial, Moralizing Technology will force us all to consider the virtue of new inventions and to rethink the rightness of the products we use every day.
Designing in Ethics
Designing in Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing in Ethics write by Jeroen van den Hoven. This book was released on 2017-10-26. Designing in Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows how an emphasis on design can help us usefully apply ethics to a world built on institutions and technology.
Ethics, Technology, and Engineering
Ethics, Technology, and Engineering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethics, Technology, and Engineering write by Ibo van de Poel. This book was released on 2011-05-02. Ethics, Technology, and Engineering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice. Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies including the Challenger Space Shuttle, the Herald of Free Enterprise and biofuels. Covers a broad range of topics, including ethics in design, risks, responsibility, sustainability, and emerging technologies Can be used in conjunction with the online ethics tool Agora (http://www.ethicsandtechnology.com) Provides engineering students with a clear introduction to the main ethical theories Includes an extensive glossary with key terms
A Moral Technology
A Moral Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Moral Technology write by Leo C. Coleman. This book was released on 2017-05-09. A Moral Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In India over the past century, electrification has meant many things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of national integration and political communication, and a means of gauging the country's participation in globalization. Electric lights have marked out places of power, and massive infrastructures have been installed in hopes of realizing political promises. In A Moral Technology, the grids and wires of an urban public utility are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more than just an economic or industrial process, or a "gridding" of social and political relations. It may be understood instead as a ritual action that has formed modern urban communities and people’s sense of citizenship, and structured debates over state power and political legitimacy.Coleman explores three historical and ethnographic case studies from the founding of New Delhi as an imperial capital city, to its reshaping as a national capital for post-independence India, up to its recent emergence as a contemporary global city. These case studies closely describe technological politics, rituals, and legal reforms at key moments of political change in India, and together they support Coleman’s argument that ritual performances, moral judgments, and technological installations combine to shape modern state power, civic life, and political community.
The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts
The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts write by Peter Kroes. This book was released on 2014-01-08. The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. 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 arising in Artificial Intelligence and an exploration of values in Chemistry and in Engineering. The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts is an advanced exploration of the various dimensions of the relations between technology and morality
