Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility
Editors: Beck, Birgit, Kühler, Michael (Eds.)
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- Conceptual clarification and ethical assessment of the topic
- Includes debates about moral enhancement, environmental ethics, big data processing, artificial intelligence, genome editing, etc
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- About this book
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“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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Responsiveness and Liability
Pages 1-4
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Transformations of Responsibility in the Age of Automation: Being Answerable to Human and Non-Human Others
Pages 7-22
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Technology and Evolving and Contested Division of Moral Labour
Pages 23-32
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Infantilisation through Technology
Pages 33-44
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CRISPR-Cas and the Wicked Problem of Moral Responsibility
Pages 45-58
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility
- Editors
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- Birgit Beck
- Michael Kühler
- Series Title
- Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- J.B. Metzler
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-476-04896-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-476-04896-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-476-04895-0
- Series ISSN
- 2524-5902
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 191
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
