Overview
- Is the first to explicitly present and discuss the relevance of Japanese ethics of technology
- Is timely and topical in view of the Fukushima disaster and its impact
- Includes a discussion of the reception of Japanese ethics of technology in the West
- Brings together Japanese and non-Japanese scholars
Part of the book series: Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy (TCJP, volume 1)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Technology from Japanese Philosophical and Ethical Viewpoints
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Japanese Ethics in a Technological World
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About this book
This book explores the relevance of Japanese ethics for the field of ethics of technology. It covers the theories of Japanese ethicists such as Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō, Imamichi Tomonobu, Yuasa Yasuo, as well as more contemporary ethicists, and explores their relevance for the analysis of energy technologies, ICT, robots, and geoengineering. It features contributions from Japanese scholars, and international scholars who have applied Japanese ethics to problems in the global condition.
Technological development is considered to cause new ethical issues, such as genetically modified organisms fostering monocultures, nanotechnologies causing issues of privacy, as well as health and environmental issues, robotics raising issues about the meaning of humanity, and the risks of nuclear power, as witnessed in the Fukushima disaster. At the same time, technology embodies a hope for mankind, such as ICT improving relationships between human beings and nature, and smartsystems assisting humans in leading a more ethical and environmentally friendly life. This book explores these ethical issues and their impact from a Japanese perspective.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Taro Lennerfors (Ph.D., Docent) is an associate professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a visiting researcher at Meiji University, Japan. His work concerns ethics, philosophy, business and technology. Apart from monographs and book chapters, he has published papers for example in Futures, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Information, Communication, and Ethics in Society, Business Ethics: A European Review, Business and Society, Harvard Business Review, and Business History Review.
Kiyoshi Murata is Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics and Professor of MIS at the School of Commerce, Meiji University. His research interest is in information ethics including privacy, surveillance, ICT professionalism and gender issues. Kiyoshi is International Research Associate at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, and President of the Japan Society for Information and Management. He has published his papers in scholarly journals including Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, AI and Society, International Review of Information Ethics, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tetsugaku Companion to Japanese Ethics and Technology
Editors: Thomas Taro LENNERFORS, Kiyoshi MURATA
Series Title: Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59027-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59025-7Published: 21 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59027-1Published: 13 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2181
Series E-ISSN: 2662-219X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 243
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Climate Change, Non-Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice