Verbeek on the moral agency of artifacts

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Verbeek on the moral agency of artifacts

Original language description

One of the important questions discussed by philosophers of technology has to do with the moral significance of artifacts in human life. While many philosophers agree that artifacts do have moral significance attached to them, opinions vary as to how it is to be construed. In this paper we deal with the approach of the influential Dutch philosopher of technology Peter Paul Verbeek. He criticizes traditional ethical theories for assuming that whatever relevancy artifacts have for morality is entirely dependent on human beings, since artifacts are mere passive instruments of human agency. In contrast, he develops a view of moral agency that includes artifacts, in which moral agency is ascribed to human-technology hybrids rather than to humans as such. The goal of this paper is to elucidate Verbeek&apos;s account of moral agency and evaluate it. We also deal with his views on postphenomenology and mediation underlying this account. Although the general gist of our paper is expository, we point out to several problems for Verbeek&apos;s account.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL01000467" target="_blank" >TL01000467: Ethics of autonomous vehicles</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Organon F

ISSN

1335-0668

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

517-538

UT code for WoS article

000453343400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058270016