Doing Good with Technologies: (Record no. 109533)

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International Standard Book Number 9789400716407
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-1640-7
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Classification number B53
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Classification number 601
Edition number 23
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Personal name Waelbers, Katinka.
Relator term author.
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Title Doing Good with Technologies:
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Katinka Waelbers.
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Extent VIII, 152 p.
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Series statement Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
International Standard Serial Number 1879-7202 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 4
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Formatted contents note Chapter 1. Introduction: responsibility for the social role of technologies -- 1.1 Designing mediating technologies -- 1.2 The main argument of this study -- Chapter 2. Mastering technologies -- 2.1 Traditional debates on the social role of technologies -- 2.2 The empirical turn in philosophy of technology -- 2.3 ANT and Responsibility -- Chapter 3. Actor-networks and taking responsibility -- 3.1 ANT and responsibility -- 3.2 Acting willingly -- 3.3 Causation and mediation -- 3.4 Foresee ability and black-boxing -- 3.5 Responsibility: three problems, three solutions -- Chapter 4. Becoming responsible for techno-social practices -- 4.1 Different styles of doing ethics -- 4.2 Intrinsic motives and practices in actor-networks -- 4.3 Embedded agency -- 4.4 Explaining forward-looking responsibility -- 4.5 An ethics for taking responsibility for the social role of technologies -- Chapter 5. Human practices in a technological contexts -- 5.1 Reinterpreting technological mediation -- 5.2 What do we perceive? Technological mediation of factual beliefs -- 5.3 What can we do? Technological mediation of options for action -- 5.4 What do we want? Technological mediation of moral beliefs -- 5.5 Again: the question of responsibility -- Chapter 6. Tools for a forward-looking responsibility -- 6.1 Part 1 of the toolbox: questions to address -- 6.2 Part 2 of the toolbox: means to answer the questions -- 6.3 Part 3 of the toolbox: evaluating the social role of technologies -- Chapter 7. Case study: Taking responsibility for future driving -- 7.1 Studying the social role of intelligent cars -- 7.2 Step 1: the aims of the technologies -- 7.3 Step 2: the involved practices -- 7.4 Step 3: common reasons of actions of the involved practices -- 7.5 Step 4: future use of the technology -- 7.6 Step 5: mediation of reasons for action -- 7.7 Evaluation -- Chapter 8. Will we accept responsibility? -- Literature.
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Summary, etc 20th century technologies like cars, the Internet, and the contraceptive pill have altered our actions, changed our perceptions and influenced our moral ideas, for better and worse. Upcoming technologies are bound to fulfill their own unique social roles. How can we advance this social role so that it will support the good live and limit undesired changes? This book explores whether we can take a forward looking responsibility to optimize the social roles of technologies. In doing so, the book discusses three issues: first, it aims to understand the social role of technologies; second, it explores what it means to accept responsibility for this social role, and; third, it searches for some forward looking tools that help us to see how new technologies may influence human behavior. In a rather unique approach, this book combines the influential sociological research of Bruno Latour on the social impacts of technologies with the contemporary Aristotelianism of Alasdair MacIntyre.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy (General).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technology
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of Technology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400716391
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Uniform title Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1640-7
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