Moral Hermeneutics and Technology

Olya Kudina

doi:10.5771/9781793651778

Summary

In Moral Hermeneutics and Technology: Making Moral Sense through Human-Technology-World Relations, Olya Kudina explores the role of technology in the way people arrive at their moral intuitions and choices and revise their moral commitments, a phenomenon she calls “moral hermeneutics.” This book considers technology as a mediator of human relations and questions the traditional anthropocentric view of morality. Drawing on the philosophical traditions of postphenomenology and pragmatism and empirical explorations from multiple case studies, Kudina shows how values co-evolve with the dynamic human-technology-world environment and even change in response to it. Consequently, Kudina presents morality as a dynamic practice of sense-making, where people, technologies, and the cultural setting all play an active role. This book explores the implications of such a technologically mediated moral hermeneutics for the informed use, design, and governance of technologies, while accounting for the intimate connection between values and technologies.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5176-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5177-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 162
Product type: Book Titles

1. Acknowledgments No access
1. Acknowledging the Role of Technologies in Morality No access
2. 1. The Current Status of Empirical Postphenomenology No access
  2. Empirical Postphenomenology Required to Study Moral Hermeneutics No access
3. The Research Direction for Moral Hermeneutics No access
1. Exploring the “Moral” Part in the Moral Mediation Account No access
2. A Preliminary Practice-Based Examination of Values: A Case of COVID-19 Tracking Apps No access
3. A Postphenomenological Take On Values No access
4. Examining Values through Formal Theories No access
5. Solidifying Value Perspectives through Pragmatism No access
6. Notes No access
1. Exploring the “Mediation” Part in the Moral Mediation Account No access
2. Accommodating a Relational and Dynamic View on Values No access
3. Technological Mediation at Different Levels and Stages of Morality No access
4. Explicitly Considering Technologies in Moral Hermeneutics: The Technological Mediation Approach Vis-à-Vis Technomoral Change and Value Change Approaches No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. The Lens of Technological Mediation No access
2. The Need for a Proof of Principle No access
3. 1. 1. Reasoning with Privacy No access
    2. Reflecting on the Preliminary Study No access
4. Toward a Comprehensive Study of Moral Hermeneutics No access
5. Notes No access
1. A Quest for a Method for Empirically Philosophical Investigation of Moral Hermeneutics No access
2. 1. Exploring the CA&DP Method No access
  2. Exploring the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Method No access
  3. Comparing the Two Methods No access
3. Making Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis into a Method for Studying Moral Hermeneutics No access
4. 1. Technological Background No access
  2. Ethical Debate No access
  3. The Setup of the IPA Study No access
  4. The IPA Findings No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Hermeneutics and Gadamer’s Circular Account No access
  2. Postphenomenology and Ihde’s Human-World Relations No access
2. Mediated Meaning as a Hermeneutic Lemniscate: From People through Technologies to the World—and Back No access
3. Moral Hermeneutics and Technologies No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Designing Technologies with the Moral Hermeneutics in Mind No access
2. 1. Technomoral Change No access
  2. Sociotechnical Experiments No access
  3. Technological Mediation No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
References No access Pages 143 - 156
Index No access Pages 157 - 160
About the Author No access Pages 161 - 162