Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. Moralizing Technology offers exactly that: an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issue
| TITLE | : | Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things |
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| RATING | : | 4.95 (496 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0226852938 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 200 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2011-11-01 |
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Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology plays such an active role in shaping our daily actions and decisions, it is crucial, Peter-Paul Verbeek argues, that we consider the moral dimension of technology. Moralizing Technology offers exactly that: an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, Peter-Paul Verbeek locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interact
EDITORIAL :
“Verbeek’s commendable book charts a middle ground between technophobia and techno-utopianism, and he makes a strong case for the need to view our technologies as active agents rather than neutral tools in our lives.”
REVIEW :
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