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Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing - The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology (Paperback)
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Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing - The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology (Paperback)
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Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal
implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied
by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the
socio-technical infrastructures it supports. The development of
autonomic computing and ambient intelligence - self-governing
systems - challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of human
self-constitution and agency, with significant consequences for the
theory and practice of constitutional self-government. Ideas of
identity, subjectivity, agency, personhood, intentionality, and
embodiment are all central to the functioning of modern legal
systems. But once artificial entities become more autonomic, and
less dependent on deliberate human intervention, criteria like
agency, intentionality and self-determination, become too fragile
to serve as defining criteria for human subjectivity, personality
or identity, and for characterizing the processes through which
individual citizens become moral and legal subjects. Are autonomic
- yet artificial - systems shrinking the distance between (acting)
subjects and (acted upon) objects? How 'distinctively human' will
agency be in a world of autonomic computing? Or, alternatively,
does autonomic computing merely disclose that we were never, in
this sense, 'human' anyway? A dialogue between philosophers of
technology and philosophers of law, this book addresses these
questions, as it takes up the unprecedented opportunity that
autonomic computing and ambient intelligence offer for a
reassessment of the most basic concepts of law.
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