Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2020
XVI, 191 pages
978-3-476-04896-7 (ISBN)
Description
"With great power comes great responsibility." In today's world, with our growing technological power and the knowledge about its impact, we are considered to be responsible for many instances that not long ago would have been deemed a matter of fate. At the same time, the looming options of, e.g., genome editing or neuroprosthetics, threaten traditional notions of responsibility if no longer the person but the technology involved is deemed to be responsible for a speci?c behaviour. The growing ethical debate on the expansion of human responsibility, e.g. when it comes to human-machine-interaction, ambient intelligence, or reproductive technologies, thus intertwines with the challenge to formulate an appropriate understanding of the concept of personal responsibility and our respective anthropological self-understanding in today's technological world. The volume brings together both perspectives and aims at illuminating crucial dimensions of responsibility in light of technological innovation and our self-understanding as responsible beings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stuttgart
Germany
Publishing group
J.B. Metzler, Part of Springer Nature - Springer-Verlag GmbH
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVI, 191 p. 3 illus.
File size
2,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-476-04896-7 (9783476048967)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-476-04896-7
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Birgit Beck | Michael Kühler
Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility
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02/2020
J.B. Metzler
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Persons
Birgit Beck is Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) and Head of Department for Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at Technische Universität Berlin.
Michael Kühler is Associate Professor (Privatdozent) at the University of Münster, Germany.
Content
Introduction.- I Responsibility in Action.- II Responsibility for Actions.
