The Morality of Urban Mobility
Technology and Philosophy of the City
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 2021
186 pages
978-1-78660-821-5 (ISBN)
Description
Cities' transportation systems affect people, nonhuman life, urban artifacts, and could impact future generations, increasing tensions through what appear to be conflicting interests at times. Ethically addressing these concerns requires dealing with the problem of moral prioritization. Shane Epting illustrates how "moral ordering" benefits this issue. Examining these matters provides conceptual advantages for thinking through the ethical dimensions of urban mobility in an everchanging world. Along with these insights, this book reveals how exploring transportation philosophically deepens our understanding of what it means to move about the city.
Reviews / Votes
The Morality of Urban Mobility can help, not only to acknowledge how our lives and movement are determined by our built environment but by opening us to a richer, more connected politicallife in the city. * Essays in Philosophy * In discussing the morality of urban mobility, this book confronts a question that is otherwise as inescapable as it is difficult. For beyond the more obvious technological and logistical concerns, urban mobility indeed is fundamentally and ultimately a question of justice. Who gets to move within the city? And how? How can we develop a culture, indeed the moral basis, for ensuring that infrastructures, institutions, policies, as well as technologies all work together in granting everyone, including non-humans, a place to dwell and flourish in the city? Shane Epting helps us face these questions rigorously, courageously, and honestly.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78660-821-5 (9781786608215)
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Book
06/2021
Rowman & Littlefield International
€120.90
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Persons
Shane Epting is assistant professor of philosophy at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and is co-founder of the Philosophy of the City Research Group.
Content
Foreword, Lewis R. Gordon
1.The Road Ahead
2.Moving and Thinking
3.Thinking, Moving, and Parts
4.Moving, Parts, and Morality
5.The Pathway to Moral Ordering
6.Moral Prioritization in Urban Mobility
7.Love, Respect, and Urban Mobility
8.Moving, Thinking, and Co-planning
9.Moral Ordering and Worthwhile Goals
10.Thinking, Moving, and the Future
1.The Road Ahead
2.Moving and Thinking
3.Thinking, Moving, and Parts
4.Moving, Parts, and Morality
5.The Pathway to Moral Ordering
6.Moral Prioritization in Urban Mobility
7.Love, Respect, and Urban Mobility
8.Moving, Thinking, and Co-planning
9.Moral Ordering and Worthwhile Goals
10.Thinking, Moving, and the Future
