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Future Morality

Editat de David Edmonds
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 sep 2021
The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will artificial intelligence be able to predict criminal activity? Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to become post-human? Should we use drugs to improve our intimate relationships -- or to reduce crime? Our intuitions about questions like these are often both weak and confused. David Edmonds has put together a philosophical task force to get to grips with these challenges. Twenty-nine philosophers present provocative and engaging pieces about aspects of life today, and life tomorrow -- birth and death, health and medicine, brain and body, personal relationships, wrongdoing and justice, the internet, animals, and the environment. The future won't look the same when you've finished this book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198862086
ISBN-10: 0198862083
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 136 x 203 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Overall, contributors scrutinize the technology that has led to individual well-being and scientific/political progress while compromising privacy, highlighting the need for increased transparency and accountability. They persuasively argue that the future is about predictability and that the sooner emerging options are identified, the better. This book is a must read.
Edmunds persuasively argues that the future is about predictability and that the sooner emerging options are identified, the better. This book is a must read.
Future Morality, edited by David Edmonds, brings together twenty-nine crack ethicists (the promotional materials refer to them as a "philosophical task-force") to tackle novel ethical challenges - the moral problems of the future. . . . Readers will be hard-pressed to find a better introduction to a range of contemporary moral problems.
Overall, there is a lot to like in this book... The prose is readable and refreshingly jargon-free... and provides information one wouldn't necessarily come across in general-interest publications.
In this wide-ranging anthology, philosopher Edmonds... brings together some of the brightest minds in philosophy and ethics to discuss the future... This comprehensive overview of looming ethical issues goes a long way toward equipping readers with the tools to work out their own answers to sticky questions.
I would recommend this book to any academic library serving philosophy, medicine, or science departments. The individual essays would make excellent additions to a course pack for professors teaching in those areas, and the wide variety of those essays ensures that any patrons researching ethics in future studies would find something useful. Public libraries would also likely find this to be a worthwhile purchase, as the topics are eye-catching and thought-provoking, and the authors have done an excellent job of keeping their writing accessible throughout.

Notă biografică

David Edmonds is Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is the author, co-author, or editor of over a dozen books including the bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker (with John Eidinow), The Murder of Professor Schlick, Would You Kill The Fat Man?, and the children's book Undercover Robot (with Bertie Fraser). He is the host of Philosophy247 and Social Science Bites, and with Nigel Warburton he co-hosts Philosophy Bites (www.philosophybites.com), which has had over 42 million downloads worldwide.