| Variant title |
Moral status of technical artifacts |
| Series |
Philosophy of engineering and technology, 1879-7202 ; v. 17
Philosophy of engineering and technology v. 17. ^A1063189
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts; Reference; Chapter 2: Agency in Humans and in Artifacts: A Contested Discourse; 2.1 Intentions, Ethics, and Artifacts; 2.2 Artifacts with Secondary Agency; 2.3 Artifacts as Delegated Agents; 2.4 Artifacts and Cultures; 2.5 Questioning Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Towards a Post-human Intra-actional Account of Sociomaterial Agency (and Morality); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Making Sense of Sociomaterial Agency (and Morality); 3.2.1 The Inter-actional Human-Centred Account of Sociomaterial Agency |
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3.2.2 The Intra-actional Post-humanist Account of Sociomaterial Agency3.3 Figuring Intra-actional Agency in the Plagiarism Detection Phenomenon; 3.3.1 'Cutting and Pasting' and the Reconstitution of Writing and Authorship; 3.3.2 The Emergence of the Phenomenon of Plagiarism; 3.3.3 'Cutting and Pasting' and the Constitution of the Plagiarist; 3.3.4 PDS, Education and the Production of Intellectual Property; 3.4 Intra-actional Agency and Disclosive Ethics; 3.4.1 Disclosive Archaeology of Phenomena; 3.4.2 Towards Intra-actional Responsibility; References |
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Chapter 4: Which Came First, the Doer or the Deed?4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Individualism; 4.3 A Modernist Frame; 4.4 Composite Agency; 4.5 A Postmodernist Frame; 4.6 Zooming Out; 4.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Some Misunderstandings About the Moral Significance of Technology; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Do Artifacts Have Morality?; 5.3 Do Artifacts Have Agency?; 5.4 Can Things Have Intentionality?; 5.5 Can Freedom Be Technologically Mediated?; 5.6 Conclusion: Is There a Symmetry Between Humans and Technologies?; References; Chapter 6: "Guns Don't Kill, People Kill" |
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Values in and/or Around Technologies6.1 Introduction; 6.2 A Potential Dilemma; 6.3 Defining "Values"; 6.4 The Spectre of Moral Relativism; 6.5 Values and States of Affairs; 6.6 Whose Value?; 6.7 Artifacts Embodying Values; 6.8 Technological Values as Sui Generis; 6.9 Values and Consistency; 6.10 Turn the Question Around; 6.11 Many Values; 6.12 Decision-Making; 6.13 A Plethora of Values; 6.14 Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Can Technology Embody Values?; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Moore on Intrinsic Value; 7.3 Various Forms of Value; 7.4 Are Instrumental Values Real Values? |
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7.5 A Reformulation of the Neutrality Thesis in Terms of Extrinsic Final Value7.6 Rebutting the Neutrality Thesis: Some Examples; 7.7 Side-Effects; 7.8 The Importance of Design; 7.9 Realized Versus Embodied Value; Appendix: The Instrumental Value of Technical Artifacts; References; Chapter 8: From Moral Agents to Moral Factors: The Structural Ethics Approach; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Philosophical Concept of Moral Agency; 8.3 Theories of Artifacts as Moral Agents; 8.4 Evaluating the Moral Artifacts View; 8.5 An Alternative Account; 8.6 Conclusion; References |
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Chapter 9: Artefactual Agency and Artefactual Moral Agency |
| Abstract |
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 wi. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2013958227 |
| ISBN | 9400779135 |
| ISBN | 9789400779136 |
