Lorenzo Magnani

Morality in a Technological World (eBook, PDF)

Knowledge as Duty

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The technological advances of contemporary society have outpaced our moral understanding of the problems that they create. How will we deal with profound ecological changes, human cloning, hybrid people, and eroding cyberprivacy, just to name a few issues? In this book, Lorenzo Magnani argues that existing moral constructs often cannot be applied to new technology. He proposes an entirely different ethical approach, one that blends epistemology with cognitive science. The resulting moral strategy promises renewed dignity for overlooked populations, both of today and of the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511332388
• Artikelnr.: 38197808

Autorenporträt

Lorenzo Magnani, philosopher and cognitive scientist, is professor at the University of Pavia, Italy and director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. He is the author of Abduction, Reason, and Science and in 1998 started the series of International Conferences on Model-Based Reasoning.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Respecting people as things
2. Treating people as means
3. Hybrid people, hybrid selves
4. Knowledge as duty
5. Freedom and responsibility
6. Creating ethics
7. Inferring reasons.