The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles by Marti

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In this analytically oriented work, Peterson articulates and defends five moral principles for addressing ethical issues related to new and existing technologies: the cost-benefit principle, the precautionary principle, the sustainability principle, the autonomy principle, and the fairness principle.

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Autonomous cars, drones, and electronic surveillance systems are examples of technologies that raise serious ethical issues. In this analytic investigation, Martin Peterson articulates and defends five moral principles for addressing ethical issues related to new and existing technologies: the cost-benefit principle, the precautionary principle, the sustainability principle, the autonomy principle, and the fairness principle. It is primarily the method developed byPeterson for articulating and analyzing the five principles that is novel. He argues that geometric concepts such as points, lines, and planes can be put to work for clarifying the structure and scopeof these and other moral principles. This geometric account is based on the Aristotelian dictum that like cases should be treated alike, meaning that the degree of similarity between different cases can be represented as a distance in moral space. The more similar a pair of cases are from a moral point of view, the closer is their location in moral space. A case that lies closer in moral space to a paradigm case for some principle p than to any paradigm for any other principle should beanalyzed by applying principle p. The book also presents empirical results from a series of experimental studies in which experts (philosophers) and laypeople (engineering students) have been asked to applythe geometric method to fifteen real-world cases. The empirical findings indicate that experts and laypeople do in fact apply geometrically construed moral principles in roughly, but not exactly, the manner advocates of the geometric method believe they ought to be applied.

Author Biography

Martin Peterson is Bovay Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Dimensions of Consequentialism (CUP 2013) and An Introduction to Decision Theory (CUP 2009).

Table of Contents

PrefacePart 1: Foundations1. Introduction2. The Geometry of Applied Ethics3. Experimental DataPart II: Five Principles4. The Cost-Benefit Principle5. The Precautionary Principle6. The Sustainability Principle7. The Autonomy Principle8. The Fairness PrinciplePart III: Wrapping Up9. Are Technological Artifacts Mere Tools?10. ConclusionAppendix: Case DescriptionsReferences

Long Description

Autonomous cars, drones, and electronic surveillance systems are examples of technologies that raise serious ethical issues. In this analytic investigation, Martin Peterson articulates and defends five moral principles for addressing ethical issues related to new and existing technologies: the cost-benefit principle, the precautionary principle, the sustainability principle, the autonomy principle, and the fairness principle. It is primarily the method developed byPeterson for articulating and analyzing the five principles that is novel. He argues that geometric concepts such as points, lines, and planes can be put to work for clarifying the structure and scope of these and other moral principles. This geometric account is based on the Aristotelian dictum thatlike cases should be treated alike, meaning that the degree of similarity between different cases can be represented as a distance in moral space. The more similar a pair of cases are from a moral point of view, the closer is their location in moral space. A case that lies closer in moral space to a paradigm case for some principle p than to any paradigm for any other principle should be analyzed by applying principle p. The book also presents empirical results from a series of experimentalstudies in which experts (philosophers) and laypeople (engineering students) have been asked to apply the geometric method to fifteen real-world cases. The empirical findings indicate that experts and laypeople do in fact apply geometrically construed moral principles in roughly, but not exactly, themanner advocates of the geometric method believe they ought to be applied.

Feature

Selling point: Peterson shows how geometric objects such as points, lines, and diagrams can be used for clarifying the scope and structure of moral principles.Selling point: Includes results from three large experimental studies, in which over 1,000 subjects have been asked to apply the geometric method.Selling point: An innovative, hybrid approach to an ethical understanding of technology

Details ISBN0190652268 Author Martin Peterson Pages 264 Language English Year 2017 ISBN-10 0190652268 ISBN-13 9780190652265 Format Hardcover Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Subtitle A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 179 Position Bovay Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering Affiliation Bovay Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering, Texas A&M University Short Title The Ethics of Technology Publication Date 2017-08-03 UK Release Date 2017-08-03 NZ Release Date 2017-08-03 US Release Date 2017-08-03 Audience General AU Release Date 2017-09-13 We've got this

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