Morality in a technological world knowledge as duty

The technological advances of contemporary society have outpaced our moral understanding of the problems that they create. How will we deal with profound ecological changes, human cloning, hybrid people, and eroding cyberprivacy, just to name a few issues? In this book, Lorenzo Magnani argues that e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Magnani, Lorenzo (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2007.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Respecting people as things: environment
  • Treating people as means: cloning
  • Hybrid people, hybrid selves: artifacts, consciousness, free will
  • Knowledge as duty: cyberprivacy
  • Freedom and responsibility: bad faith
  • Creating ethics: good reasons and good arguments
  • Inferring reasons: practical reasoning, abduction, moral mediators.