The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kroes, Peter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Verbeek, Peter-Paul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 17
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Engineering.; Philosophy of Technology.; Engineering, general.; Political Philosophy.

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 tech...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: the moral status of technical artefacts; Peter Kroes and Peter-Paul Verbeek
• Chapter 1. Agency in Humans and in Artifacts: A Contested Discourse; Carl Mitcham
• Chapter 2. Towards a post-human intra-actional account of sociomaterial agency (and Morality); Lucas Introna
• Chapter 3. Which came first, the doer or the deed?; Allan Hanson
• Chapter 4. Some misunderstandings about the moral significance of technology; Peter-Paul Verbeek
• Chapter 5. “Guns don’t kill, people kill”; values in and/or around technologies; Joe Pitt.-Chapter 6. Can technology embody values?; Ibo van de Poel and Peter Kroes
• Chapter 7. From moral agents to moral factors: the structural ethics approach; Philip Brey
• Chapter 8. Artefactual agency and artefactual moral agency; Deborah G. Johnson and Merel Noorman
• Chapter 9. Artefacts, agency, and action schemes; Christian Illies and Anthonie Meijers
• Chapter 10. Artificial agents and their moral nature; Luciano Floridi
• Chapter 11. The good, the bad, the ugly and the poor: instrumental and non- instrumental values of artefacts; Maarten Franssen
• Chapter 12. Values in Chemistry and Engineering; Sven Ove Hansson.