Questions tagged [philosophy-of-technology]
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Are there moral dilemmas that can not be solved just by unbounded resources, that require something other to solve them?
Are there moral dilemmas that can not be solved just by unbounded resources, that require something other to solve them?
By solving the moral dilemma I mean either one of the following:
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Interpreting Sevcenko quote about technology
(...) let's divide the experience (rollercoaster ride) into three
parts. The first is continuous, methodical and persistent ascent
(...). This phase represents the period from the 16th century to the
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Book or source recommendations on philosophy and the web
I am looking for a philosophical take on the Internet and so far find surprisingly little of what I was hoping for. While I am also interested in information theory, digital culture, social critique, ...
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Can we say that human beings are behaving more and more like machines?
In all societies people complied to some behavioral expectation. In the middle age for instance people felt that they were assigned by God their position in society, and they would comply to the ...
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What did Bernard Stiegler say about technology always progressing?
My uncle was reading Stiegler right before he died and he was saying something that Stiegler said technological advancement never ends. As a budding futurist; I find this very intriguing and would ...
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Is Heidegger's concept of poiēsis different from Aristotle's?
First of all, sorry if this question's pretty naive. I am new to Philosophy and I would like to know whether there is a distinction between Aristotle's concept of poiesis and Martin Heidegger's.
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Moral issues in cyber technology [closed]
Is anyone of deontology or utilitarianism adequate to handle moral issues in cyber technology? Or do we need some other theory?
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Does phenomenology reject causality, in that there are natural laws to be understood and utilised? What is the stance on technological progress/devel?
I have been diving into phenomenology for my research and it seems very interesting. But coming back to the "practical" world I still don't can't really describe its stance on various ...
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Why does poverty still exist in the world that discovered advanced technologies? [closed]
For example some individuals may say 'a poor life of an individual is because that he doesn't work enough'.
The world advanced as much as inventing many advanced technologies such as gun, calculator, ...
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What should we consider the evolution of the human species?
Nowadays we are living in a world that is emphasizing, in various ways, the concept that technological progress brings to our species welfare.
There are a lot of technological tools that help us to ...
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Are there any philosophical works on the social meta hierarchies created by technology(the emergence of the internet)?
Since the 1990s many people have been able to interact in ways that were not accessible to them before due to the internet.
Since the online interactions differ in many respects from those in real ...
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Is Turing test still serving as criterion of machine intelligence?
During the first half of the last century Alan Turing proposed his 'Turing test' as means by which to answer whether machines have intelligence. To recall: the test amounts to a conversation between ...
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Philosophy and ontology of tools (instruments), their design and creation (as part of philosophy of action and agency)? Meta-actions?
I am designing self-evolving and self-learning cognitive architecture (that is how the Artificial General intelligence is being implemented) with the seed intelligence approach, that is why I am using ...
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Importance of technology in Western thought
Ours is a world which is full of promises that advanced technology, such as autonomous cars, cloud computing, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence will somehow bring forth a future worth ...
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What is the argument posed by Katherine Hayles in "The Condition of Virtuality" as to the relation between matter and virtuality and why?
I am learning in class of the influence new media have on old-aged dichotomies such as matter-mind, subject-object and their like. Our new-media teacher asked us to read the paper "The condition ...
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