Technology and the virtues : a philosophical guide to a future worth wanting / Shannon Vallor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallor, Shannon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Technology.

Virtues.

Physical Description:

vii, 309 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Part I Foundations for a Technomoral Virtue Ethic

1 Virtue Ethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing 17

1.1 The Contemporary Renewal of Virtue Ethics 20

1.2 Virtue Ethics and Philosophy of Technology 23

2 The Case for a Global Technomoral Virtue Ethic 35

2.1 Classical Virtue Traditions: Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist Ethics 36

2.2 The Shared Commitments of Virtue Traditions 42

2.3 The Need for a Global Technomoral Virtue Ethic 49

Part II Cultivating the Technomoral Self: Classical Virtue Traditions as a Contemporary Guide

3 The Practice of Moral Self-Cultivation in Classical Virtue Traditions 61

3.1 Learning from Other Virtue Traditions 61

3.2 Cultivating the Technomoral Self 63

3.3 Moral Habituation 66

4 Cultivating the Foundations of Technomoral Virtue 76

4.1 Relational Understanding 76

4.2 Reflective Self-Examination 84

4.3 Intentional Self-Direction of Moral Development 91

5 Completing the Circle with Technomoral Wisdom 99

5.1 Moral Attention 99

5.2 Prudential Judgment 105

5.3 Appropriate Extension of Moral Concern 110

6 Technomoral Wisdom for an Uncertain Future: 21st Century Virtues 118

6.1 A Taxonomy of Technomoral Virtues 119

6.2 Honesty: Respecting Truth 120

6.3 Self-Control: Becoming the Author of Our Desires 123

6.4 Humility: Knowing What We Do Not Know 125

6.5 Justice: Upholding Rightness 127

6.6 Courage: Intelligent Fear and Hope 129

6.7 Empathy: Compassionate Concern for Others 132

6.8 Care: Loving Service to Others 138

6.9 Civility: Making Common Cause 140

6.10 Flexibility: Skillful Adaptation to Change 145

6.11 Perspective: Holding on to the Moral Whole 149

6.12 Magnanimity: Moral Leadership and Nobility of Spirit 151

6.13 Technomoral Wisdom: Unifying the Technomoral Virtues 154

Part III Meeting the Future with Technomoral Wisdom, Or How To Live Well with Emerging Technologies

7 New Social Media and the Technomoral Virtues 159

7.1 New Social Media and the Good Life 159

7.2 New Social Media and the Virtue of Self-Control 165

7.3 Media Multitasking, Moral Attention, and the Cultivation of Empathy 170

7.4 New Social Media and Virtuous Self-Regard: Humility, Honesty, and Perspective 174

7.5 New Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Spiral of Silence 176

7.6 Technomoral Wisdom and Leadership in a New Media Age: Looking Forward 185

8 Surveillance and the Examined Life: Cultivating the Technomoral Self in a Panoptic World 188

8.1 Virtue in the Panopticon: Challenging the New Cult of Transparency 188

8.2 Technologies of the Examined Life 195

8.3 'Smart' Surveillance and the Quantified Self 198

8.4 Surveillance and Mora! 'Nudges' 202

8.5 Flourishing with Emerging Surveillance Technologies 204

9 Robots at War and at Home: Preserving the Technomoral Virtues of Care and Courage 208

9.1 Robot: Ethics as Virtue Ethics 209

9.2 Autonomous Military Robots: Courage and Hope for the Human Future 211

9.3 'Killer Robots' and Technomoral Courage: The 'Troubles We Do Not Avoid' 215

9.4 Carebots and the Ethical Self 218

9.5 Technomoral Care in Relations of Human Dependence 220

10 Knowing What to Wish For: Technomoral Wisdom and Human Enhancement Technology 230

10.1 Competing Visions of Human (or Posthuman) Flourishing 231

10.2 Technomoral Humility, Wisdom, and the Argument from Hubris 237

10.3 Technomoral Virtue and Contemporary Life: A Crisis of Moral Wishing 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190498511

019049851X

OCLC:

945231167