Formalization and Responsibility

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Formalization and Responsibility

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

Formalization and Responsibility

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility

ISBN

978-3-319-09827-2

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

187-196

Počet stran knihy

223

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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