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The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts

Paperback Engels 2016 9789402405255
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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

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ISBN13:9789402405255
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
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<p>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.</p>

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