Ethics and Technology

Question 1

What are Human-Technology Interactions?

Answer 1

Phenomenology: the study of the interaction between humans and their world (last topic)

Question 2

What is Instrumental Ethics?

Answer 2

What the instrument can do and the ethics that it makes (Technology is just a TOOL for people to use), e.g. “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”

Question 3

What is Sociomaterial Ethics?

Answer 3

Humans have become cyborgs (Agency is SHARED), e.g. “guns don’t kill people, cyborgs do”

Question 4

What is Existential Ethics?

Answer 4

Heidegger’s being in the world view (Technology mediates our relationship to the world human technology world) e.g. “guns don’t kill people but they provide the script that enables people to follow it and kill people”