Technology ethics : a philosophical introduction and readings / edited by Gregory J. Robson and Jonathan Y. Tsou

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The definition of technology / Val Dusek -- Value-free technology? / Joseph C. Pitt -- The values built into technologies / David Morrow -- Technological determinism: what it is and why it matters / Sally Wyatt -- Heidegger's philosophy of technology / David R. Cerbone -- Postphenomenology and ethics / Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Technology and the extended mind / Shaun Gallagher -- Ethical theory and technology / Jonathan Y. Tsou and Kate Padgett Walsh -- Disagreeing well about technology / Daniel C. Russell -- Technology and the virtue of honesty / Christian B. Miller -- Confucian ethics of technology / Qin Zhu -- Utilitarianism and happy-people-pills / Mark A. Walker -- Marxist perspectives on technology / Tony Smith -- Technology and trust: a Kantian approach / Bjørn K. Myskja -- Values in artificial intelligence systems / Justin B. Biddle -- A Kantian course correction for machine ethics / Ava Thomas Wright -- Ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence technologies in mental health: psychotherapy chatbots / Serife Tekin -- Privacy, security, and surveillance / Adam D. Moore -- Being-in-the-screen: phenomenological reflections on contemporary screenhood / Lucas D. Introna and Fernanado Ilharco -- Race, gender, and visibility on social media / Megan Rim -- Fake news: there's no app for truthfulness / Axel Gelfert -- Adam Smith on the dangers of the digital world / James R. Otteson -- Social media firms, echo chambers, and the good life / Gregory J. Robson -- Data science and business ethics / David C. Rose -- Technology firms and the business case for diversity / Adam Gjesdal -- Big tech & political equality / Saura Masconale and Simone M. Sepe -- AI and the law: can the legal system help us maximize paperclips and minimize deaths? / Mihailis E. Diamantis, Rebekah Cochran, and Miranda Dam -- Biomedical technology and the ethics of enhancement / Daniel Moseley and Christina Murray -- Genetic enhancement: just say yes / Jason Brennan -- Feminism and the ethics of reprogenetic technologies / Immaculada de Melo-Martín -- Rethinking ethical subjectivity in the biomedical treatment of HIV risk / Emerich Daroya and Stuart J. Murray -- Against doping in sport / John William Devine.

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently organized into five parts: Perspectives on Technology and its Value Technology and the Good Life Computer and Information Technology Technology and Business Biotechnologies and the Ethics of Enhancement A hallmark of the volume is multidisciplinary contributions both (1) in "analytic" and "continental" philosophies and (2) across several hot-button topics of interest to students, including the ethics of autonomous vehicles, psychotherapeutic phone apps, and bio-enhancement of cognition and in sports. The volume editors, both teachers of technology ethics, have compiled a set of original and timely chapters that will advance scholarly debate and stimulate fascinating and lively classroom discussion.