Boys with Toys and Fearful Parents?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Albrecht Fritzsche
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Technology Ethics ◽  
Current Discussion

Based on recent complaints about the neglect of the human in the philosophy of technology, this paper explores the different ways how technology ethics put the relation between the human and the technical on stage. It identifies various similarities in the treatment of the human in technology and the treatment of the child in education and compares Heidegger’s concerns about the role of technology with the duplicity of childhood and adulthood in conflicts of adolescence. The findings give reason to assume that technology ethics and pedagogy are closely related. A brief review of selected topics in technology ethics illustrates exemplarily how a pedagogic interpretation of the current discussion can contribute to further progress in the field.

Boys with Toys and Fearful Parents?

2012 ◽  
pp. 281-290
Author(s):  
Albrecht Fritzsche
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Technology Ethics ◽  
Current Discussion

Based on recent complaints about the neglect of the human in the philosophy of technology, this paper explores the different ways how technology ethics put the relation between the human and the technical on stage. It identifies various similarities in the treatment of the human in technology and the treatment of the child in education and compares Heidegger’s concerns about the role of technology with the duplicity of childhood and adulthood in conflicts of adolescence. The findings give reason to assume that technology ethics and pedagogy are closely related. A brief review of selected topics in technology ethics illustrates exemplarily how a pedagogic interpretation of the current discussion can contribute to further progress in the field.

Ethics for a Digital Age (Vol. II) [Book Review]

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Stones
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Technology Ethics ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The second volume of Ethics for a Digital Age edited by Bastiaan Vanacker and Don Heider (2018) highlights research presented at the fifth and sixth Annual International Symposia on Digital Ethics. The volume features ten essays organized under three banner topics that include 1) Trust, Privacy, and Corporate Responsibility; 2) Technology, Ethics, and the Shifting Role of Journalism; and 3) Ethics and Ontology. Together, the essays aim to invigorate conversations about ethical issues in professional and philosophical contexts. In this review, I first provide a synopsis of each section and its corresponding essays to give readers a sense of the depth and breadth of topics covered in the volume. I conclude the review by identifying themes that unite the essays and broadly contribute to this robust field of inquiry.

scholarly journals Consistency or contradiction? Mobility-Related Attitudes and Travel Mode Use of the Young ‘New Generation’

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Konrad ◽  
Sören Groth
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Travel Mode ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of mobility-related attitudes in the travel mode use of young people, the extent to which young adults and teenagers behave consistently in relation to their attitudes, and the conditions on which the consistency of attitudes and behaviour depends. We thus continue the current discussion about the loss of importance of the car for young people in which various socio-demographic trends, but also changed attitudes, are used as explanatory factors, especially on a hypothetical level. Our contribution closes a research gap in that so far neither the relationship between attitudes and behaviour among young people has been empirically investigated nor has this relationship been empirically placed in a context of spatial, economic and socio-demographic conditions. We address this by means of differentiated correlation analyses and the calculation of correlation differences on the basis of a nationwide German survey of young people from 2013. This enables us to demonstrate that young people basically behave consistently in line with their attitudes. However, there are significant differences which confirm that certain spatial, economic and socio-demographic conditions are essential for the implementation of attitudes into corresponding travel mode use.

scholarly journals Emerging Urban Mobility Technologies through the Lens of Everyday Urban Aesthetics

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš N. Mladenović ◽  
Sanna Lehtinen ◽  
Emily Soh ◽  
Karel Martens ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Aesthetic Understanding ◽  
Urban Aesthetics ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Shed Light

The goal of this article is to deepen the concept of emerging urban mobility technology. Drawing on philosophical everyday and urban aesthetics, as well as the postphenomenological strand in the philosophy of technology, we explicate the relation between everyday aesthetic experience and urban mobility commoning. Thus, we shed light on the central role of aesthetics for providing depth to the important experiential and value-driven meaning of contemporary urban mobility. We use the example of self-driving vehicle (SDV), as potentially mundane, public, dynamic, and social urban robots, for expanding the range of perspectives relevant for our relations to urban mobility technology. We present the range of existing SDV conceptualizations and contrast them with experiential and aesthetic understanding of urban mobility. In conclusion, we reflect on the potential undesired consequences from the depolitization of technological development, and potential new pathways for speculative thinking concerning urban mobility futures in responsible innovation processes.

Immutability, Necessity and Triunity: Towards a Resolution of the Trinity and Election Controversy

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin W. Hector
Keyword(s):  
Current Discussion ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
The One ◽  
Heating Up ◽  
Proper Interpretation ◽  
The Trinity

AbstractThe controversy sparked by Bruce McCormack's 2000 essay, entitled ‘Grace and Being: The Role of God's Gracious Election in Karl Barth's Theological Ontology’, shows little sign of waning; it seems, in fact, only to be heating up. In this article, I hope to make a modest contribution to this debate, one which will hopefully move it towards a resolution. My proposal is twofold: on the one hand, I will argue that we can do justice to McCormack's motivating concerns, without rendering ourselves liable to criticisms commonly raised against his view, if we accept two propositions: first, that God does not change in electing to be God-with-us, and second, that election is volitionally, but not ‘absolutely’, necessary to God. (By ‘absolutely necessary’ I mean something like ‘true in all possible eternities’, as will become clear.) I will try to demonstrate that this is Karl Barth's own position on the matter, which demonstration, if successful, would mean that the controversy should no longer be centred on the proper interpretation of Barth. This brings me to the second, shorter, part of my proposal, in which I argue that McCormack's position is innocent of some charges frequently brought against it. My hope is that these arguments, taken together, will advance the current discussion and contribute to its resolution.

INTRODUCING VAN RIESSEN’S WORK IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY

2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc J. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Nature Of Technology ◽  
History Of

In this issue that is dedicated to Hendrik van Riessen, it seems appropriate to start with an introduction to his work. I will show how he served as one of the first Dutch philosophers of technology and worked on themes that only much later would appear on the research agenda of the international philosophy of technology community. This gives him a rather unique position in the history of the philosophy of technology. I will start by showing how his background qualified Van Riessen to become one of the few philosophers of technology in his time who were able to analyze the nature of technology, based on an ‘insiders’ engineer’s perspective. Then I will discuss the main themes in his analytical philosophy of technology. Not only did he contribute to the analytical philosophy of technology, but also to the critique on the role of technology in culture and society. Finally, I will show how his work is relevant for contemporary research in the philosophy of technology, both for his successors in the reformational philosophy of technology and outside that philosophical stream.

scholarly journals Rethinking Octatonicism

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Ewell
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Russian Music ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Formative Years

Recent and long-standing debates about the role of octatonicism in works by Stravinsky and other late-chromatic and early-modernist composers have taken place with little mention of how octatonicsim is viewed in Russia—the country of Stravinsky’s birth and formative years as a composer. In this article, the author seeks to put music that is often considered octatonic in North America into a Russian framework. He does this by examining the work of three Russian music theorists: Boleslav Yavorsky, Sergei Protopopov, and Yuri Kholopov. The author seeks not to invalidate American views on octatonicism but, rather, to enrich the current discussion with Russian perspectives.

scholarly journals Technocracy as the Ideology

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Azimli Aziz Sh. O ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Machine System ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

The study examines the position of a man and society in the philosophy of technology and technocracy development that were connected with the technological progress in Europe and North America in the 19th century. The issue of relations within the “man – machine” system has become a great interest among sociologists, historians, psychologists and philosophers. The study is based on methods of analysis and synthesis of scientific writings from Plato to F. Dessauer, who referred to the important role of science and technology in the society development. The technology increasing impact on people’s lives was reflected in the emergence of technocratic concepts. They reflected the vision of technological evolution modern problems and a vision of its future development. The cornerstone of the technocracy concepts was the idea of political power transition to the technocrats’ social layer. However, during the 20th century, technocrats’ categories like scientific and technological intelligentsia, plants and factories heads, scientists and engineers did not constitute a unified political power. They were invited to discuss the economic development problems, as experts, where they were adapted to the existing political regimes rather than trying to modify them. The technocratic strata of population transformation, their political views and preferences, the impact on the socio-political situation in the country had become the main topics in the respective philosophical concepts. Thus, one important issue is man’s status in a technological society, which in turn is a relevant topic for study in the 21 st century, the century of technology. Keywords: philosophy of technology, “man – machine” system, technocracy, scientific and technological progress, political power

scholarly journals Let Us Now Think Engineering: an Interview with Carl Mitcham

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Carl Mitcham ◽  
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A.A. Kazakova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Colorado School ◽  
Philosophy Of Engineering

Carl Mitcham is International Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Technology at Renmin Universityof China and Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Colorado School of Mines inthe United States. For more than four decades of his work in the field of phi­losophy of science andtechnology, he has made important contributions on its most controversial topics, including biotechnologies,IT, energy and many others. Of special interest is his philosoph­ical and socio-historical study ofengineering, which has become the area of his intellectual col­laboration with V.G. Gorokhov. This year,Prof. Mitcham published a new book, “Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historical-Philosophicaland Critical Essays”. In the interview Pro­fessor Mitcham discusses the developments in engineeringprofession and education and the chang­ing role of engineering societies; the relationships betweenengineering, science and philosophy; the engineering cultures and the meaning of engineering in the modernculture.

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