Formalization and Responsibility

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Formalization and Responsibility
Original language description
If you ask a scientist for the actual meaning of his terms, say, that of an electron or a quark, he is more than likely to write an equation. An electron, he will insist, is this formula for the probability-density of its position. Similarly, if you wantto evaluate an investment in finance, you use the formula for its net present value, discounting the income it generates by the opportunity costs of its capital. Such formal procedures are, in fact, omnipresent. From the algorithms determining market investments to the reduction of much of the social sciences to statistical analyses, both our claims and our decisions exhibit the formalization that marks our age. The questions I raise concern the issue of responsibility in this context. How is it to beunderstood? To whom or what do we respond? I argue that our difficulties answering such questions point to the transformation of the notion of responsibility that formalism occasions. Formalization abstracts from the embodied particularit
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility
ISBN
978-3-319-09827-2
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
187-196
Number of pages of the book
223
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
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