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Rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media
signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and
social implications of the digital, and of specific digital
technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is
the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of
digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear
parts, the authors discuss and explain the following key topics: *
Becoming literate in digital ethics * Moral viewpoints in digital
contexts * Motivating action in digital ethics * Speed and scope of
digital information * Moral algorithms and ethical machines * The
digital and the human * Digital relations and empathy machines *
Agents, autonomy, and action * Digital and ethical activism. The
book includes cases and examples that explore the ethical
implications of digital hardware and software including videogames,
social media platforms, autonomous vehicles, robots, voice-enabled
personal assistants, smartphones, artificially intelligent
chatbots, military drones, and more. Understanding Digital Ethics
is essential reading for students and scholars of philosophical
ethics, those working on topics related to digital technology and
digital/moral literacy, and practitioners in related fields.
Rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media
signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and
social implications of the digital, and of specific digital
technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is
the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of
digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear
parts, the authors discuss and explain the following key topics: *
Becoming literate in digital ethics * Moral viewpoints in digital
contexts * Motivating action in digital ethics * Speed and scope of
digital information * Moral algorithms and ethical machines * The
digital and the human * Digital relations and empathy machines *
Agents, autonomy, and action * Digital and ethical activism. The
book includes cases and examples that explore the ethical
implications of digital hardware and software including videogames,
social media platforms, autonomous vehicles, robots, voice-enabled
personal assistants, smartphones, artificially intelligent
chatbots, military drones, and more. Understanding Digital Ethics
is essential reading for students and scholars of philosophical
ethics, those working on topics related to digital technology and
digital/moral literacy, and practitioners in related fields.
In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest
moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given
at the annual “Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science,”
the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an
engaging and accessible way. Addressing a mixed public audience,
the authors go beyond dry theory to explore some of the difficult
moral questions that face scientists and policy-makers every day.
The introduction presents a theoretical framework for the book,
defining the term “bioethics” as extending well beyond human
well-being to wider relations between humans, nonhuman animals, the
environment, and biotechnologies. Three sections then explore the
complex relationship between moral value, scientific knowledge, and
policy making. The first section starts with thoughts on nonhuman
animal pain and moves to a discussion of animal understanding. The
second section explores climate change and the impact of
“green” nanotechnology on environmental concerns. The final
section begins with dialog about ethical issues in nanotechnology,
moves to an exploration of bio-banks (a technology with broad
potential medical and environmental impact), and ends with a survey
of the impact of biotechnologies on (synthetic) life itself.
Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our
relations, be horrifying? On the surface, interdependence-the idea
that individuals are each made up of their relations-appears to be
a beautiful thing. Ecology, social theory, and the driving forces
of digital media seem to agree that more and deeper connections to
others are better. Yet there is a dark side of interdependence,
too, that remains hidden away. Interdependence threatens the
western philosophical ideal of individualism, and this threat lurks
unseen in the backs of our minds like a dark spectre. Philosophy
can give the contours of this spectre, and film can shine a light
on its shadowy details. Together, they reveal a horror of
relations. Contributors to this volume interrogate the question of
interdependence through analyses of contemporary film and give
voice to new perspectives on its meaning. Conceived before and
written during the COVID-19 pandemic and through a period of deep
social unrest, this volume illuminates a dark reality that is both
perennial and timely.
Amid all the controversy, criticism, and celebration of Terence
Malick's award-winning film The Tree of Life, what do we really
understand of it? The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace
thoughtfully engages the philosophical riches of life, culture,
time, and the sacred through Malick's film. This groundbreaking
collection traverses the relationships among ontological, moral,
scientific, and spiritual perspectives on the world, demonstrating
how phenomenological work can be done in and through the cinematic
medium, and attempting to bridge the gap between narrow
""theoretical"" works on film and their broader cultural and
philosophical significance. Exploring Malick's film as a
philosophical engagement, this readable and insightful collection
presents an excellent resource for film specialists, philosophers
of film, and film lovers alike.
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