The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (Inbunden)
avPeter Kroes, Peter-Paul Verbeek
ISBN: 9789400779136 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around techn[...]
Moralizing Technology (Pocket)
avPeter-Paul Verbeek
ISBN: 9780226852935 - UTGIVEN: 201110Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do [...]
What Things Do (Häftad)
avPeter-Paul Verbeek
ISBN: 9780271025407 - UTGIVEN: 200505Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can their role in our lives be understood? What Things Do answers these questions by focusing on how technologies mediate our actions and our perceptio[...]
User Behavior and Technology Development (Häftad)
avPeter-Paul Verbeek
ISBN: 9789048171286 - UTGIVEN: 2010-11Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. This book explores the relationships between technology and behavior from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is the first volume that aims to create a conceptual basis for analyzing interactions between t[...]
