Mark Coeckelbergh
About Mark Coeckelbergh
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The Political Philosophy of AI
Political issues raised by artificial intelligence and how philosophy can help
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Books by Mark Coeckelbergh
“AI Ethics (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)” (2020)
AI Ethics Is Much Debated Today And Often Attracts Fears About Superintelligence. This Book, Written By A Philosopher Of Technology Engaged In Research And Policy On The Topic, Moves Away From Science Fiction Fantasies And Instead Focuses On Concrete Ethical Issues Raised By Ai And Data Science. After Contextualizing Nightmares About AI And Sketching Some Philosophical Issues, It Looks At What The Technology Actually Is And Discusses Problems Such As Responsibility, Transparency, And Bias. It Also Gives An Overview Of AI Policy And Discusses Its Challenges - Also In The Light Of Climate Change.
“Introduction to Philosophy of Technology” (2019)
Addressing the technological opportunities and challenges of the 21st century, Introduction to Philosophy of Technology offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive overview of philosophy of technology available. It covers several of the classic theories and approaches, but also moves beyond them to explore a broader range of theories and a number of new dynamics in the field, including responding to new technological developments. Esteemed scholar Mark Coeckelbergh emphasizes how new technological developments stimulate philosophical thinking--and rethinking--and how philosophers of technology could do more to interact with other subdisciplines in philosophy and fields beyond academia, such as art and policy.
“Using Words and Things” (2017)
This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are—is re-thought in a way that accounts for the role of language in human technological experiences and practices. Engaging with work by Wittgenstein, Heidegger, McLuhan, Searle, Ihde, Latour, Ricoeur, and many others, the author critically responds to, and constructs a synthesis of, three "extreme", idealtype, untenable positions: (1) only humans speak and neither language nor technologies speak, (2) only language speaks and neither humans nor technologies speak, and (3) only technology speaks and neither humans nor language speak.
“Using Words And Things: Language And Philosophy Of Technology” (2017)
Using Words And Things: Language And Philosophy Of Technology
“Money Machines” (2016)
While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the role of technology in global finance and reflects on the ethical and societal meaning and impact of financial information and communication technologies (ICTs). Exploring the history, metaphysics, and geography of money, algorithms, and electronic currencies, the author argues that financial ICTs contribute to impersonal, disengaged, placeless, and objectifying relations, and that in the context of globalization these 'distancing' effects render it increasingly difficult to exercise and ascribe responsibility. Caught in the currents of capital, it seems that both experts and lay people have lost control and lack sufficient knowledge of what they are doing. There is too much epistemic, social, and moral distance. At the same time, the book also shows that these electronically mediated developments do not render global finance merely 'virtual', for its technological practices remain material and place-bound, and the ethical and social vulnerabilities they create are no less real.
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