Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings

by Gregory J. Robson (Editor), Jonathan Y. Tsou (Editor)

Overview

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently organized into five parts:

1. Perspectives on Technology and its Value
2. Technology and the Good Life
3. Computer and Information Technology
4. Technology and Business
5. Biotechnologies and the Ethics of Enhancement

A hallmark of the volume is multidisciplinary contributions both (1) in "analytic" and "continental" philosophies and (2) across several hot-button topics of interest to students, including the ethics of autonomous vehicles, psychotherapeutic phone apps, and bio-enhancement of cognition and in sports. The volume editors, both teachers of technology ethics, have compiled a set of original and timely chapters that will advance scholarly debate and stimulate fascinating and lively classroom discussion.

Downloadable eResources (available from www.routledge.com/9781032038704) provide a glossary of all relevant terms, sample classroom activities/discussion questions relevant for chapters, and links to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries and other relevant online materials.

Key Features:

• Examines the most pivotal ethical questions around our use of technology, equipping readers to better understand technology’s promises and perils.
• Explores throughout a central tension raised by technological progress: maintaining social stability vs. pursuing dynamic social improvements.
• Provides ample coverage of the pressing issues of free speech and productive online discourse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032038711
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/2023
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gregory J. Robson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University and a Visiting Assistant Research Professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on ethics (including business and technology ethics) and social and political philosophy.

Jonathan Y. Tsou is a Professor of Philosophy and the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Distinguished Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has teaching and research interests in philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of psychiatry.

Table of Contents

Part I: Perspectives on Technology and Its Value

1. The Definition of Technology
Val Dusek

2. Value-free Technology?
Joseph Pitt

3. The Values Built Into Technologies
David Morrow

4. Technological Determinism: What It Is and Why It Matters
Sally Wyatt

5. Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology
David Cerbone

6. Postphenomenology and Ethics
Peter-Paul Verbeek

7. Technology and the Extended Mind
Shaun Gallagher

Part II: Technology and the Good Life

8. Ethical Theory and Technology
Jonathan Y. Tsou and Kate Padgett Walsh

9. Disagreeing Well about Technology
Daniel Russell

10. Technology and the Virtue of Honesty
Christian B. Miller

11. Confucian Ethics of Technology
Qin Zhu

12. Utilitarianism and Happy-People-Pills
Mark A. Walker

13. Marxist Perspectives on Technology
Tony Smith

14. Technology and Trust: A Kantian Approach
Bjørn K. Myskja

Part III: Computer and Information Technology

15. Values in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Justin Biddle

16. A Kantian Course Correction for Machine Ethics
Ava Thomas Wright

17. Ethical Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Mental Health: Psychotherapy Chatbots
Şerife Tekin

18. Privacy, Security, and Surveillance
Adam D. Moore

19. Being-in-the-screen: Phenomenological Reflections on Contemporary Screenhood
Lucas Introna and Fernando Ilharco

20. Race, Gender, and Visibility on Social Media
Megan Rim

21. Fake News: There’s No App for Truthfulness
Axel Gelfert

Part IV: Technology in Business

22. Adam Smith on the Dangers of the Digital World
James R. Otteson

23. Social Media Firms, Echo Chambers, and the Good Life
Gregory Robson

24. Data Science and Business Ethics
David C. Rose

25. Technology Firms and the Business Case for Diversity
Adam Gjesdal

26. Big Tech & Political Equality
Saura Masconale and Simone M. Sepe

27. AI and the Law: Can the Legal System Help Us Maximize Paperclips and Minimize Deaths?
Mihailis E. Diamantis, Rebekah Cochran, and Miranda Dam

Part V: Technology in Medicine and Sport

28. Biomedical Technology and the Ethics of Enhancement
Daniel Moseley and Christina Murray

29. Genetic Enhancement: Just Say Yes
Jason Brennan

30. Feminism and the Ethics of Reprogenetic Technologies
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

31. Rethinking Ethical Subjectivity in the Biomedical Treatment of HIV Risk
Emerich Daroya and Stuart J. Murray

32. Against Doping in Sport
John William Devine