scholarly journals The Ethics of Technology and the Technology of Ethics

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Technology

The Death of the Ethic of Life

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Basl
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Philosophy Of Biology ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Moral Concern ◽  
Ethics Of Technology ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Moral Importance ◽  
Practical Concern ◽  
Living Organisms

According to the ethic of life, all living organisms are of special moral importance. Living things, unlike simple artifacts or biological collectives, are not mere things whose value is entirely instrumental. This book articulates why the ethic is immune to most of the standard criticisms raised against it, but also why such an ethic is untenable, why the domain of moral concern does not extend to all living things; it argues for an old conclusion in an entirely new way. To see why the ethic must be abandoned requires that we look carefully at the foundations of the ethic—the ways in which it is tightly connected to issues in the philosophy of biology and the sorts of assumptions it must draw on to distinguish the living from the nonliving. This book draws on resources from a variety of branches of philosophy and the sciences to show that the ethic cannot survive this scrutiny, and it articulates what the death of the ethic of life means in a variety of areas of practical concern, including environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, ethics of technology, and in philosophy more generally.

scholarly journals Touching at a Distance: Digital Intimacies, Haptic Platforms, and the Ethics of Consent

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelaine Ley ◽  
Nathan Rambukkana
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethics Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
Haptic Communication ◽  
Skin To Skin ◽  
Sense Of Touch

AbstractThe last decade has seen rise in technologies that allow humans to send and receive intimate touch across long distances. Drawing together platform studies, digital intimacy studies, phenomenology of touch, and ethics of technology, we argue that these new haptic communication devices require specific ethical consideration of consent. The paper describes several technologies, including Kiiroo teledildonics, the Kissenger, the Apple Watch, and Hey Bracelet, highlighting how the sense of touch is used in marketing to evoke a feeling of connection within the digital sphere. We then discuss the ambiguity of skin-to-skin touch and how it is further complicated in digital touch by remediation through platforms, companies, developers, manufacturers, cloud storage sites, the collection and use of data, research, satellites, and the internet. Lastly, we raise concerns about how consent of data collection and physical consent between users will be determined, draw on examples in virtual reality and sex-robotics, and ultimately arguing for further interdisciplinary research into this area.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Technology Choice: Photovoice Methodology with Men Living in Low-Income Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Tarrant ◽  
Kahryn Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Technology Choice ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Ethics Of Technology ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Photovoice Methodology ◽  
Participatory Method

This article describes a two-phased reflexive ethical process initiated when choosing digital cameras for the photovoice method in research with men living in low-income contexts. While this participatory method aims to flatten power asymmetries in researcher–researched relationships, debate is needed about how pragmatic technology choices may inadvertently underscore or even reinforce participants’ situated experiences of disempowerment and constraint. Critically engaging with an ethics of care approach to decision-making, we unpick what superficially appears to be a straightforward problem of method and demonstrate how pragmatic decisions may confound researchers’ efforts towards democratisation in research. We reflect on how such efforts may inadvertently obscure contextual processes shaping the potential for participants to engage in research. Our reflections demonstrate the need to take seriously all decision-making throughout the research process as integral to a wider politics of method and ethics.

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