Power and Technology (eBook)

A Philosophical and Ethical Analysis

Faridun Sattarov (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
208 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-131-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, allowing for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology.

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The notion of technological power is fast becoming an object of both academic and policy discourses. Within such discourses one can observe several different senses of power being employed, especially when viewed from a multi-disciplinary angle. This demonstrates the need for the creation of a cross-disciplinary and integrative framework for identifying and clarifying different conceptions of the relations between technology and power. In this respect, the book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, which allows for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology. In addition, the framework presented in this book aims to contribute to better critical and ethical evaluation of technologies and their powers. Any adequate ethics or critique of technology must be based on a better, clearer, and more nuanced and differentiated understanding of the many ways in which technology can be described as 'powerful'.

Autor

lt;span>Dr. Faridun Sattarov received his PhD in philosophy of technology from the University of Twente. He has been a research fellow at the UNESCO Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section, University of Liverpool School of Law, Technological University of Eindhoven and University of Twente. He is an affiliate member of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics of Technology.

Inhalt

Introduction



Chapter 1: Four Views of Power



Chapter 2: Episodic Power and Technology



Chapter 3: Dispositional Power and Technology



Chapter 4: Systemic Power and Technology



Chapter 5: Constitutive Power and Technology



Chapter 6: Power in the Ethics of Algorithms



Chapter 7: Power and Ethics: Conceptual Connections



Chapter 8: Power and Ethics: Practical Implications



Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Tables.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: Ethics of Technology • Moral Philosophy • Philosophy of Technology • Political Philosophy • Power • science and technology • Science and Technology Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78661-131-7 / 1786611317
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78661-131-4 / 9781786611314