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Moralizing Technology : Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things /

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verbeek, Peter-Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Mediated Morality
  • 2. A Nonhumanist Ethics of Technology
  • 3. Do Artifacts Have Morality?
  • 4. Technology and the Moral Subject
  • 5. Morality in Design
  • 6. Moral Environments: An Application
  • 7. Morality beyond Mediation
  • 8. Conclusion: Accompanying Technology
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index