Moral Hermeneutics and Technology - Making Moral Sense Through Human-Technology-World Relations

This book considers morality as a dynamic ecosystem that can change in response to its sociomaterial embedding. It particularly explores the role of technology in mediating the meaning of human values and studies the implications of this capacity for the use, design, and governance of technologies.

List of contents

Introduction. Probing the relation between technology and morality
Chapter 1. Morality as an ecosystem
Chapter 2. Technological mediation of morality
Chapter 3. Technological appropriation and moral hermeneutics
Chapter 4. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis as a method to study moral hermeneutics
Chapter 5. Hermeneutic lemniscate as an encompassing principle of moral sense-making mediated by technologies
Conclusion. Reflecting on the moral hermeneutics study from the perspectives of technology design and governance

About the author

Olya Kudina is assistant professor of ethics and philosophy of technology at Delft University of Technology.

Summary

This book considers morality as a dynamic ecosystem that can change in response to its sociomaterial embedding. It particularly explores the role of technology in mediating the meaning of human values and studies the implications of this capacity for the use, design, and governance of technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Olya Kudina
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781793651761
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-176-1
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Ethics & moral philosophy, Translation & interpretation, Ethics and moral philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Translation and interpretation