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Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility

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Editors:
  1. Birgit Beck

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

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  2. Michael Kühler

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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  • Technical progress has to be balanced by responsible action
  • Conceptual clarification and ethical assessment of the topic
  • Includes debates about moral enhancement, environmental ethics, big data processing, artificial intelligence, genome editing, etc

Part of the book series: Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie (TPAHT, volume 1)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Responsiveness and Liability

    • Thomas Gil
    Pages 1-4

  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
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About this book

“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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the editors

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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