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The Ethics of Technology - A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of Technology - A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles (Hardcover)
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Autonomous cars, drones, and electronic surveillance systems are
examples of technologies that raise serious ethical issues. In this
analytic investigation, Martin Peterson articulates and defends
five moral principles for addressing ethical issues related to new
and existing technologies: the cost-benefit principle, the
precautionary principle, the sustainability principle, the autonomy
principle, and the fairness principle. It is primarily the method
developed by Peterson for articulating and analyzing the five
principles that is novel. He argues that geometric concepts such as
points, lines, and planes can be put to work for clarifying the
structure and scope of these and other moral principles. This
geometric account is based on the Aristotelian dictum that like
cases should be treated alike, meaning that the degree of
similarity between different cases can be represented as a distance
in moral space. The more similar a pair of cases are from a moral
point of view, the closer is their location in moral space. A case
that lies closer in moral space to a paradigm case for some
principle p than to any paradigm for any other principle should be
analyzed by applying principle p. The book also presents empirical
results from a series of experimental studies in which experts
(philosophers) and laypeople (engineering students) have been asked
to apply the geometric method to fifteen real-world cases. The
empirical findings indicate that experts and laypeople do in fact
apply geometrically construed moral principles in roughly, but not
exactly, the manner advocates of the geometric method believe they
ought to be applied.
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