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Moralizing technology : understanding and designing the morality of things / Peter-Paul Verbeek.
LIBRA T14 .V473 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verbeek, Peter-Paul, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 183 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Moralizing Technology offers an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Peter-Paul Verbeek locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines. Citing concrete examples, including some from his own life, Verbeek compellingly argues for the morality of things. Rich and multifaceted, and sure to be controversial, Moralizing Technology will force us all to consider the virtue of new inventions and to rethink the rightness of the products we use every day. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Mediated morality
- A nonhumanist ethics of technology
- Do artifacts have morality?
- Technology and the moral subject
- Morality in design
- Moral environments: an application
- Morality beyond mediation
- Conclusion: accompanying technology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226852938
- 9780226852911
- 0226852911
- 9780226852935
- OCLC:
- 694080482
- Publisher Number:
- 99949621387
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