Power and Technology: A Philosophical and Ethical Analysis - Softcover

Sattarov, Faridun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786611309 ISBN 13: 9781786611307

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

The notion of technological power is fast becoming an object of both academic and policy discourses. Within such discourses one can observe several different senses of power being employed, especially when viewed from a multi-disciplinary angle. This demonstrates the need for the creation of a cross-disciplinary and integrative framework for identifying and clarifying different conceptions of the relations between technology and power. In this respect, the book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, which allows for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology. In addition, the framework presented in this book aims to contribute to better critical and ethical evaluation of technologies and their powers. Any adequate ethics or critique of technology must be based on a better, clearer, and more nuanced and differentiated understanding of the many ways in which technology can be described as 'powerful'.

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About the Author

Dr. Faridun Sattarov received his PhD in philosophy of technology from the University of Twente. He has been a research fellow at the UNESCO Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section, University of Liverpool School of Law, Technological University of Eindhoven and University of Twente. He is an affiliate member of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics of Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1786611309
• ISBN 13: 9781786611307
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 207