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Doing Good with Technologies: - Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
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Doing Good with Technologies: - Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 4
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20th century technologies like cars, the Internet, and the
contraceptive pill have altered our actions, changed our
perceptions and influenced our moral ideas, for better and worse.
Upcoming technologies are bound to fulfill their own unique social
roles. How can we advance this social role so that it will support
the good live and limit undesired changes? This book explores
whether we can take a forward looking responsibility to optimize
the social roles of technologies. In doing so, the book discusses
three issues: first, it aims to understand the social role of
technologies; second, it explores what it means to accept
responsibility for this social role, and; third, it searches for
some forward looking tools that help us to see how new technologies
may influence human behavior. In a rather unique approach, this
book combines the influential sociological research of Bruno Latour
on the social impacts of technologies with the contemporary
Aristotelianism of Alasdair MacIntyre.
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