The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Series: | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7914-3 Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- 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.