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Habitual Ethics? (Hardcover)
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Habitual Ethics? (Hardcover)
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What if data-intensive technologies' ability to mould habits with
unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass
disability of profound consequences? What if we become incapable of
modifying the deeply-rooted habits that stem from our increased
technological dependence? On an impoverished understanding of
habit, the above questions are easily shrugged off. Habits are
deemed rigid by definition: 'as long as our deliberative selves
remain capable of steering the design of data-intensive
technologies, we'll be fine'. To question this assumption, this
open access book first articulates the way in which the habitual
stretches all the way from unconscious tics to purposive,
intentionally acquired habits. It also highlights the extent to
which our habit-reliant, pre-reflective intelligence normally
supports our deliberative selves. It is when habit rigidification
sets in that this complementarity breaks down. The book moves from
a philosophical inquiry into the 'double edge' of habit - its
empowering and compromising sides - to consideration of individual
and collective strategies to keep habits at the service of our
ethical life. Allowing the norms that structure our forms of life
to be cotton-wooled in abstract reasoning is but one of the factors
that can compromise ongoing social and moral transformations.
Systems designed to simplify our practical reasoning can also make
us 'sheep-like'. Drawing a parallel between the moral risk inherent
in both legal and algorithmic systems, the book concludes with
concrete interventions designed to revive the scope for normative
experimentation. It will appeal to any reader concerned with our
retaining an ability to trigger change within the practices that
shape our ethical sensibility. The eBook editions of this book are
available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Mozilla
Foundation.
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