scholarly journals The Rule of the System of Technology and Its Algorithms and the Problem of Moral Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Mariusz Wojewoda ◽  
Paweł Jędrzejko
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Instrumental Reason ◽  
Free Agency ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Jacques Ellul ◽  
System Today

The article offers an analysis of the problems of technology in the context of exercising power in an organization. The power of the system today is addressed in terms of the “rule of numbers,” based on the impersonal authority of the algorithms which is an extension of the modern concept of the instrumental reason. In keeping with the rules of efficiency the employees manifest modes of behavior analogous to those characterizing the functioning of technology and specifically emphasized by Max Horkheimer and Jacques Ellul. In the author’s view, the rule of the algorithm-based technological systems leads to the atrophy of the moral responsibility and the loss of agency. Attempting to defend the idea of man’s free agency in the context of the algorithm-based technological system, the author invokes Hans Jonas’s theory of moral responsibility and refers to the concept of “ethical anarchism” as proposed by Emmanuel Lévinas.

Analysis of interconnections between technical systems on hierarchically connected technological levels of steel sheet production by hot rolling

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 847-855
Author(s):  
E. N. Shiryaeva ◽  
M. A. Polyakov ◽  
D. V. Terent'ev
Keyword(s):  
Hot Rolling ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Rolling Mill ◽  
Steel Sheet ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Rolled Sheet ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Hot Rolling Mill ◽  
Technical Systems

Complexity of modern metallurgical plants, presence of great number of horizontal and vertical interactions between their various structural subdivisions makes it necessary to apply a systems analysis to elaborate effective measures for stable development of a plant operation. Among such measures, digitalization of a plant is widespread at present. To implement the digitalization it is necessary to have clear vision about links at all the levels of the technological system of a plant. A terminology quoted, accepted in the existing regulatory documents for defining of conceptions, comprising the technological system. It was shown, that the following four hierarchical levels of technological systems are distinguished: technological systems of operations, technological systems of processes, technological systems of production subdivisions and technological systems of plants. A hierarchical scheme of technological systems of hot-rolled sheet production at an integrated steel plant presented. Existing horizontal and vertical links between the basic plant’s shops shown. Peculiarities of flows of material, energy and information at the operation “rolling” of the technological system “hot rolling of a steel sheet” considered. As a technical system of the technological process of the hot rolling, the hot rolling mill was chosen. A structural diagram of the hot rolling mill was elaborated, the mill being consisted of reheating furnaces, roughing and finishing stand groups, with an intermediate roll-table between them, and down-coilers section. Since the rolling stands are the basic structural elements of the hot rolling mill, structural diagrams of a roughing and a finishing stands were elaborated. Results of the systems analysis of the technological and technical systems, hierarchically linked in the process of steel sheet hot rolling, can be applied for perfection of organization structure of the whole plant, as well as for elaboration mathematical models of a system separate elements functioning, which is a necessary condition for a plant digitalization.

scholarly journals Sports utility semiotics: A semantic differential study of symbolic potential in automobile design

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (207) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Wilson ◽  
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Automobile Design ◽  
Affective Attitudes ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Two Factors

AbstractThe article aims to illuminate the issue of symbolic potential in postmodern society through a semiotic study of car design. In Baudrillard’s terminology, we explore the experience and sociological and psychological materiality of objects that, being above objects’ perceptible materiality, constantly modify the integrity of technological systems (Baudrillard 2005 [1968]: 6). The target concepts are analyzed through Baudrillard’s lens of symbolic capital and his technological system of objects, coupled with the method of semantic differential (SD; e.g., Osgood 1979, 1981) against the insights of Tartu semiotics. Such a complex framework helps to establish affective attitudes of the subjects towards scales selected for their perceptual saliency. The analysis is based on the responses of students in a Polish university who were administered an instrument comprising 14 concepts and 37 scales. The results of statistical analysis yield a semantic space with two factors: potency and activity/dynamism, which we shall call social prestige. At this stage of the analysis we could not determine the evaluation factor. The scales that loaded significantly showed that there is indeed an increment of perceptual saliency in both extracted factors in the case of target stimuli (pickups and SUVs).

scholarly journals ESTÁGIO SUPERVISIONADO E A TENDÊNCIA À RAZÃO INSTRUMENTAL

Revista Labor ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Elenilce Gomes de Oliveira ◽  
Carlos Augusto De Oliveira Azevedo Filho
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Instrumental Reason ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Education Science ◽  
Important Milestone

Resumo  Destaca a tendência à razão instrumental, com base em Theodor W. Adorno e Max Horkheimer, cuja crítica a essa racionalidade constitui marco importante para a compreensão dos obstáculos à emancipação e à liberdade humana. A metodologia tem suporte na acepção do materialismo histórico-dialético, de modo a evidenciar elementos atinentes às relações histórico-sociais. Dessa maneira, põe em ressalto peculiaridades relativas à manifestação desta racionalidade no âmbito do Estágio Supervisionado, componente curricular da Licenciatura em Teatro, no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará.   Palavras-chave: Racionalidade. Adorno. Horkheimer. Formação. Estágio Supervised internship and tendency to instrumental reason Abstract  The present paper highlights the tendency to instrumental reason as developed by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, whose criticism to this rationality constitutes an important milestone for understanding the obstacles to human emancipation and freedom. The methodology is based on the dialectical and historical materialism, in order to point elements related to historical-social relations. In this way, it emphasizes peculiarities related to the manifestation of this rationality within the scope of Supervised Internship as one of the curricular components of the Teaching License in Theater at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará. Key-words: Rationality. Adorno. Horhheimer. Formation. Supervised Internship.

scholarly journals Antimodernism, Reactionary Modernism and National Socialism. Technocratic Tendencies in Germany, 1890–1945

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Rohkrämer
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Instrumental Reason ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
Willingness To Use

The article looks critically at attempts to explain the rise of National Socialism in Germany by trying to identify a peculiarly German tradition of antimodernism or reactionary modernism (by, among others, Jeffrey Herf). By looking at different critiques of civilisation in imperial Germany, it tries to show that most of them accepted the necessity of modern technology. What was new about the so-called ‘reactionary modernists’ in the Weimar Republic was not their willingness to use modern technology, but the full acceptance of the fact that modern technology could only exist on the basis of large technological systems, industrial production and fundamental social and cultural changes. They demanded that Germans unreservedly embrace all aspects of modernity, though without giving up their conservative political ideals.While the ‘reactionary modernists’ tried to arrange the whole of society in accordance with an alleged technological functionality, National Socialism was politically more successful, exactly because its attitude towards technology and modernity was less coherent. As National Socialism had a purely pragmatic and open attitude towards technology, it could accept without hesitation that its goals were only achievable through the use of modern means, but that the cultural and private sphere should compensate for the deficits of a public life characterised by hardship and instrumental reason.

scholarly journals Beyond Atheism and Atheology: The Divine Humanism of Emmanuel Levinas

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Manuel Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Divine Transcendence ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Creation

Is the divine a meaningful and indispensable element of moral responsibility? Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics have brought new expression to the question of God and the Good. Contemporary engagements with Levinas’ provocation, however, have generated a morass of contrary judgments and enigmatic explications, including praise and criticism for its atheology, secular transcendence, and crypto-religious conceit. The essay takes issue with secular and atheistic interpretations of Levinas, arguing that his mature ethics offer a philosophical species of divine humanism, one that justifies the indispensable significance of the divine for moral responsibility. It examines the philosophical problems that lead to the creation of new phenomenological descriptions for divine transcendence, and it sheds light on the seemingly erratic scattering of divine names—infinite, third person, trace, immemorial past, absence, beyond being, illeity—as improvisational orchestrations for God at the margins of moral responsibility.

Educating for well-being and autonomy

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefaan E. Cuypers ◽  
Ishtiyaque Haji
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Agency ◽  
Liberal Ideal ◽  
The One

Liberals champion the view that promoting autonomy — seeing to it that our children develop into individuals who are self-governing in the conduct of their lives — is a vital aim of education, though one generally accredited as being subsidiary to well-being. Our prime goal in this article is to provide a partial validation of this liberal ideal against the backdrop of a freedom-sensitive attitudinal hedonism — our favored life-ranking axiology.We propose that there is a pivotal connection between the concept of maximizing well-being and another concept central in the philosophy of education and in the literature on free agency: the concept of our springs of action, such as our desires or beliefs, being `truly our own' or, alternatively, autonomous. We suggest that it is the freedom that moral responsibility requires that bridges the overarching aim of securing well-being, on the one hand, and the subsidiary aim of promoting autonomy, on the other.

scholarly journals The use of tool materials for monitoring the state of cutting technological systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
В. Ya. Mokritskiy ◽  
V. Yu. Shelkovnikov
Keyword(s):  
Tool Life ◽  
Stainless Steels ◽  
Tool Material ◽  
The State ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Dynamic State ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Life Period ◽  
Cutting Zone

 The aim was to develop a methodology for monitoring the dynamic state of the links “machine tool – device – cutting tool – detail” comprising a cutting technological system as applied to turning specialized stainless steels using replaceable standard hardmetal inserts. The research object was the hard-to-treat non-corrosive stainless steels 09Х17Н7Ю, 12Х18Н10Т and 13Х15Н5 АМ-3. Monitoring was carried out by simulating plate coatings in the Deform software environment. The diagnostic criterion was the tool life period up to the wear level of 0.5 mm along the rear edge. The effect of coatings on the tool life period was assessed according to the following parameters: temperature in the cutting zone, tension in the tool material and tool deformation. As a result, 10 optimal coatings having the greatest impact on the state of the cutting technological system under study were selected. These coatings can be used for diagnosing the state of cutting technological systems. The coatings were distinguished in terms of architecture (design, composition,structure and coating method). A technique for monitoring and managing the state of cutting technological systems according to the results of diagnostics was proposed. The deviation of the revealed state of the cutting technological system from the desired state was estimated by the life period of tools with different coatings for the same time of their operation. The state of the system under study was considered effective provided that the maximum tool life period due to the use of an optimal coating was achieved. A technique allowing assessment of the state of technological cutting systems by their simulation according to the parameters “temperature in the cutting zone”, “tension in the tool material” and “tool deformation” was proposed. This technique also permits monitoring of the state of cutting systems by the parameter "tool life period" and managing their state according to the results of diagnostics through the use of the most optimal plate coatings. The developed technique can be used to reveal the optimal parameters of the cutting mode of hard-to-treat specialized corrosion-resistant steels.  

scholarly journals Architecture and Technology in Paimio Sanatorium

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Heikinheimo
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Concrete Frame ◽  
Collective Competence ◽  
Building Project

Alvar Aalto created innovative architecture in his breakthrough work, Paimio Sanatorium, located in Southwestern Finland and designed between 1928 and 1933. The technological systems in construction, such as the concrete frame, electricity, air conditioning, and lifts, developed rapidly in the interwar period and Aalto drew influences from the culturally radical modernistic discourse around the CIAM organisation and felt that architecture should respond to the demands of the age. Architecture is an applied form of art, and symbolic expression in architecture is a system with its logic. As a contrast, a building is a technological system and forms a framework within which to solve practical problems. Thus, as a technological system, the building is both material and social, during its construction and after. The theoretical underpinning for the study was the actor-network theory developed since the 1980s by the French sociologist Bruno Latour. This study clearly showed the importance of a collaborative effort in a building project. The most famous architectural solutions for Paimio Sanatorium, a demanding institutional building project, came into being in circumstances where the architect-innovator, Aalto, managed to create a viable and robust hybrid that merged collective competence with material factors.

scholarly journals SPHERE OF MINERAL RESOURCES USE: FORMATION OF THE SECTORIAL INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

2017 ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
S. V. Lisov ◽  
YU. B. Vinslav
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Economical Activity

The paper gives the definition of the term «sectorial industrial technological system» as an instrument for the realization of macro-level industrial policy, with regard to the features of concrete kinds of economical activity. The main methodic demands for the designing of such systems are formulated. The key ones are to define the perspective demands to the technological development of the sector, to define the subject-technological priorities and organizational ecomonical mechanisms of integration of economic subjects in corresponding directions. The feasibility and possibilities of such sectoral systems formation with regard to the geological sector specifics are characterized. The presence of the powerful scientific indusirial cenier as JSC «Rusgeology» gives the significant competitive advantages in the sectoral industrial technological systems design.

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