Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Responsiveness and Liability

   • Thomas Gil

   Pages 1-4

3. Responsibility in Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Transformations of Responsibility in the Age of Automation: Being Answerable to Human and Non-Human Others

      • Mark Coeckelbergh, Janina Loh

      Pages 7-22

   3. Technology and Evolving and Contested Division of Moral Labour

      • Arie Rip

      Pages 23-32

   4. Infantilisation through Technology

      • Birgit Beck

      Pages 33-44

   5. CRISPR-Cas and the Wicked Problem of Moral Responsibility

      • Joschka Haltaufderheide

      Pages 45-58

   6. Seeing the Turn: Microscopes, Gyroscopes, and Responsible Analysis in Petroleum Engineering

      • Eric Kerr

      Pages 59-74

   7. We Are the End of the World: Stories of Anthropocenic Hyperarousal

      • Axel Gelfert

      Pages 75-94

4. Responsibility for Actions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Algorithmic Decision-Making and the Problem of Control

      • Thomas Grote, Ezio Di Nucci

      Pages 97-113

   3. Technological Moral Luck

      • Michael Kühler

      Pages 115-132

   4. Would Moral Machines Close the Responsibility Gap?

      • Peter Remmers

      Pages 133-145

   5. Can We Forgive a Robot?

      • Michael Nagenborg

      Pages 147-157

   6. Artificial Intelligence in Extended Minds: Intrapersonal Diffusion of Responsibility and Legal Multiple Personality

      • Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs

      Pages 159-176

   7. Reproductive Medicine and Parental Responsibility

      • Tatjana Noemi Tömmel

      Pages 177-191

“With great power comes great responsibility.” In today’s world, with our growing technological power and the knowledge about its impact, we are considered to be responsible for many instances that not long ago would have been deemed a matter of fate. At the same time, the looming options of, e.g., genome editing or neuroprosthetics, threaten traditional notions of responsibility if no longer the person but the technology involved is deemed to be responsible for a specific behaviour. The growing ethical debate on the expansion of human responsibility, e.g. when it comes to human-machine-interaction, ambient intelligence, or reproductive technologies, thus intertwines with the challenge to formulate an appropriate understanding of the concept of personal responsibility and our respective anthropological self-understanding in today’s technological world. The volume brings together both perspectives and aims at illuminating crucial dimensions of responsibility in light of technological innovation and our self-understanding as responsible beings.

• Responsibility
• Technological progress
• Future generations
• Applied Ethics
• Environmental Ethics
• Enhancement
• Genome editing
• Responsible Design
• Reproductive technology

• Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Birgit Beck

• Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Michael Kühler

Birgit Beck is Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) and Head of Department for Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at Technische Universität Berlin.

Michael Kühler is Associate Professor (Privatdozent) at the University of Münster, Germany.

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