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The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 17
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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.Â
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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