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This volume explores urgent questions surrounding the bidirectional
relationship between feminist philosophy and emerging technologies.
It underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on
the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at
the same time accentuates how emerging technologies can uniquely
impact the shape of future feminist critique and intervention.
While feminist philosophers have attended to problems posed by a
few specific technologies that emerged in the previous
century—especially reproductive technologies—broader
philosophical questions concerning the challenges various new
technologies present to feminism have yet to receive the sustained,
critical attention they deserve. Feminist Philosophy and Emerging
Technologies responds to this problem. It is divided into two
sections. Section 1 provides theoretical considerations about the
links between feminist philosophy and philosophy of technology
(broadly construed) by developing–against the background of
emerging technologies–methodological approaches and guidance for
bringing those two fields of philosophical research together.
Section 2 is dedicated to analyses of specific emerging
technologies and user trends, their relation to extant structures
of oppression, and to bringing to the fore various ways in which a
feminist philosophy of technology can impact the design of current
and future technologies. Feminist Philosophy and Emerging
Technologies is an excellent resource for scholars and advanced
students working in feminist philosophy, philosophy of technology,
ethics, political philosophy, feminist theory, gender and cultural
studies, and science and technology studies.
Socially Extended Epistemology explores the epistemological
ramifications of one of the most important research programmes in
contemporary cognitive science: distributed cognition. In certain
conditions, according to this programme, groups of people can
generate distributed cognitive systems that consist of all
participating members. This volume brings together a range of
distinguished and early career academics, from a variety of
different perspectives, to investigate the very idea of socially
extended epistemology. They ask, for example: can distributed
cognitive systems generate knowledge in a similar way to
individuals? And if so, how, if at all, does this kind of knowledge
differ from normal, individual knowledge? The first part of the
volume examines foundational issues, including from a critical
perspective. The second part of the volume turns to applications of
this idea, and the new theoretical directions that it might take
us. These include the ethical ramifications of socially extended
epistemology, its societal impact, and its import for emerging
digital technologies.
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Extended Epistemology (Hardcover)
J Adam Carter, Andy Clark, Jesper Kallestrup, S. Orestis Palermos, Duncan Pritchard
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One of the most important research programmes in contemporary
cognitive science is that of extended cognition, whereby features
of a subject's cognitive environment can in certain conditions
become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself. The aim
of this volume is to explore the epistemological ramifications of
this idea. The volume brings together a range of distinguished and
emerging academics, from a variety of different perspectives, to
investigate the very idea of an extended epistemology. The first
part of the volume explores foundational issues with regard to an
extended epistemology, including from a critical perspective. The
second part of the volume examines the applications of extended
epistemology and the new theoretical directions that it might take
us. These include its ethical ramifications, its import to the
epistemology of education and emerging digital technologies, and
how this idea might dovetail with certain themes in Chinese
philosophy.
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