Animals, Robots, Gods (eBook)

Adventures in the Moral Imagination

Webb Keane (Autor)

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2025
181 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-27094-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in, or the machines we endow with life.Drawing on pioneering fieldwork around the globe by some of today's leading researchers, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane invites us to expand our moral imagination. We learn about the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists, Balinese cockfighters, cowboys, and Japanese robot fanciers. We meet a hunter in the Yukon who explains to a bear why it must come out of hibernation and generously give itself up to him, a cancer sufferer in Thailand who sees his tumor as a reincarnated ox, and a computer that persuades users to confess their anxieties as if they were patients on a psychiatrist's couch. Through these and other stories, Keane challenges us to rethink our most basic ideas about whoand whatwe deem worthy of moral consideration.Brimming with charm, wit, and insight, Animals, Robots, Gods reveals how centuries of conversations between us and nonhumans inform our conceptions of morality and will continue to guide us in the age of AI and beyond.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Academic ethics studies • AI • AI and the future of moral responsibility • AI ethics • algorithms • Animal rights philosophy • animals • anthropologist • Anthropologists • Anthropology and AI • Anthropology book recommendations • Anthropology of moral imagination • anthropology of morality • Artifical Intelligence • Artificial intelligence morality • Bear • brain • Clinicians • Computers • Consciousness • Contemporary moral debates • Cree • Cross-cultural ethics • Cross-cultural perspectives on nonhuman agency • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural anthropology meets artificial intelligence • Cultural relativism in ethics • Distinction • Dogs • Elk • Ethical • ethical bonds • ethical dilemmas • Ethical dilemmas in human-animal interactions • ethical storytelling • ethics • Ethics beyond the human-animal divide • Ethics in the age of AI • Ethics of human-nonhuman interaction • Ethnography of ethics • Fieldwork • Global case studies in moral philosophy • Global fieldwork narratives • Glossolalia • gods we believe in • horse • How robots challenge traditional ethics • human-animal relationships • hunters • Intelligence • interaction • interspecies communication • intuitions • Japanese • machine • machines • moral boundaries • moral consideration • Moral Imagination • Morality • Moral Philosophy • Moral relationships • moral responsibility • neutral • Nonhuman • nonhuman agency • Organ • Patient • PET • Pets • Philosophers • Philosophy of Technology • Possession • posthumanism • quasi • Quasi human • quasi humans • Religious • Religious Ethics • Rethinking moral consideration in the age of AI • Robot Ethics • robots • Sacrifice • Shaman • Societies • Soul • SPIRIT • super humans • Systems • tech ethicists • Technology • Traditions • trolley • victims • Webb Keane • Why gods, animals, and robots shape ethics
• ISBN-10: 0-691-27094-5 / 0691270945
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-27094-4 / 9780691270944