Technology And The Virtues
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Technology And The Virtues
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Author : Shannon Vallor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-02
Technology And The Virtues written by Shannon Vallor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Philosophy categories.
The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree. Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected in such challenging and uncertain conditions? How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond? This book locates a key to that future in the distant past: specifically, in the philosophical traditions of virtue ethics developed by classical thinkers from Aristotle and Confucius to the Buddha. Each developed a way of seeking the good life that equips human beings with the moral and intellectual character to flourish even in the most unpredictable, complex and unstable situations--precisely where we find ourselves today. Through an examination of the many risks and opportunities presented by rapidly changing technosocial conditions, Vallor makes the case that if we are to have any real hope of securing a future worth wanting, then we will need more than just better technologies. We will also need better humans. Technology and the Virtues develops a practical framework for seeking that goal by means of the deliberate cultivation of technomoral virtues: specific skills and strengths of character, adapted to the unique challenges of 21st century life, that offer the human family our best chance of learning to live wisely and well with emerging technologies.
Technology And The Virtues
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Author : Shannon Vallor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Technology And The Virtues written by Shannon Vallor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with PHILOSOPHY categories.
New technologies from artificial intelligence to drones, and biomedical enhancement make the future of the human family increasingly hard to predict and protect. This book explores how the philosophical tradition of virtue ethics can help us to cultivate the moral wisdom we need to live wisely and well with emerging technologies.
Rhetoric Technology And The Virtues
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Author : Jared S. Colton
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2018-10-21
Rhetoric Technology And The Virtues written by Jared S. Colton and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues offers a framework for theorizing ethics in digital and networked media. While the field of rhetoric and writing studies has traditionally given attention to Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus dialogues, this volume updates Aristotle’s basic framework of hexis for the digital age. According to Aristotle, “When men change their hexeis—their dispositions, habits, comportments, and so on, in relation to an activity—they change their thought.” Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues argues that virtue ethics supports postmodern criticisms of rational autonomy and universalism while also enabling a discussion of the actual ethical behaviors that digital users form through their particular communicative ends and various rhetorical purposes. Authors Jared Colton and Steve Holmes extend Aristotle’s hexis framework through contemporary virtue ethicists and political theorists whose writing works from a tacit virtue ethics framework. They examine these key theorists through a range of case studies of digital habits of human users, including closed captioning, trolling, sampling, remixing, gamifying for environmental causes, and using social media, alongside a consideration of the ethical habits of nonhuman actors. Tackling a needed topic with clarity and defined organization, Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues carefully synthesizes various strands of ethical thinking, convincingly argues that virtue ethics is a viable framework for digital rhetoric, and provides a practical way to assess the changing hexeis encountered across the network of ethical situations in the digital world.
Science Technology And Virtues
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Author : Emanuele Ratti
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-23
Science Technology And Virtues written by Emanuele Ratti and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-23 with Science categories.
Virtues have become a valuable and relevant resource for understanding modern science and technology. Scientific practice requires not only following prescribed rules but also cultivating judgment, building mental habits, and developing proper emotional responses. The rich philosophical traditions around virtue can provide key insights into scientific research, including understanding how daily practice shapes scientists themselves and how ethical dilemmas created by modern scientific research and technology should be navigated. Science, Technology, and Virtues gathers both new and eminent scholars to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the products of modern science and technology. Contributors draw from examples across philosophy, history, sociology, political science, and engineering to explore how virtue theory can help orient science and technology towards the pursuit of the good life. Split into four major sections, this volume covers virtues in science, technology, epistemology, and research ethics, with individual chapters discussing applications of virtues to scientific practice, the influence of virtue ethics on socially responsible research, and the concept of "failing well" within the scientific community. Rather than offer easy solutions, the essays in this volume instead illustrate how virtue concepts can provide a productive and illuminating perspective on two phenomena at the core of modern life. Fresh and thought-provoking, Science, Technology, and Virtues presents a pluralistic set of scholarship to show how virtue concepts can enrich our understanding of scientific research, guide the design and use of new technologies, and shape how we envision future scientists, engineers, consumers, and citizens.
Science Technology And Economic Development
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Author : William Beranek
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1978
Science Technology And Economic Development written by William Beranek and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Science categories.
The Transfer Of Sensitive Technologies And The Future Of Control Regimes
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Author : Péricles Gasparini Alves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Transfer Of Sensitive Technologies And The Future Of Control Regimes written by Péricles Gasparini Alves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This publication makes a unique contribution to the search for innovative ideas & partnerships on a more regional & larger scope than ever before. It is comprised of papers from fourteen international experts from the diplomatic, military & academic communities in which they identify tomorrow's key technologies in both weapon systems & components, particularly emerging technologies that may become objects of control & constraint eight to ten years hence. This book is essential to those interested in following the trends in the transfer of sensitive technologies in the next decade.
Technology And Human Productivity
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Author : John W. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1986-09-23
Technology And Human Productivity written by John W. Murphy and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-09-23 with Business & Economics categories.
The editors have assembled a collection of original essays offering a holistic view of how technology shapes the modern world. Consideration is given to several major issues, such as the dehumanizing effects of technology, which tends to objectify social life; the emphasis on productivity and the accumulation of material goods; and the intricacies involved in creating a responsible technology that would establish more socially sensitive principles, values, and beliefs. Technology is examined not simply as machinery, but as a procedure that can be used to define every aspect of social existence, and the book demonstrates how to bring about the changes that are necessary to remedy this alienating situation.
Technology In Schools
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Author : Anita Cross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Technology In Schools written by Anita Cross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Education categories.
Advanced Materials In High Technology And World Class Manufacturing
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Author : Lakis C. Kaounides
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Advanced Materials In High Technology And World Class Manufacturing written by Lakis C. Kaounides and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with High technology industries categories.
Ethics Information And Technology
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Author : Richard N. Stichler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Ethics Information And Technology written by Richard N. Stichler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this collection of essays, leaders and icons in the emerging field of information ethics (Marc Rotenberg, Senator Patrick Leahy, Nadine Strossen, John Stuart Mill, Kirkpatrick Sale, Susan Hallman, and 15 others) discuss the challenges associated with advances in technology. The essays are divided into five subject areas: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology and education; information, rights and social justice; ethics and the Internet; and professional ethics. The writers come from many backgrounds (e.g., librarians, lawyers and lawmakers, and academics) and provide a variety of views on the value of information and its ethical dimension in an increasingly technological age. The essays have been drawn from many periodicals, including Library Journal, Daedalus, The Nation, Journal of Information Ethics and Wired.