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The philosophy of the metaverse

How might we philosophize about the metaverse? It is traditionally held that the four main branches of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and logic. In this article, I shall ... realism appears compatible with this intuition. At the same time, virtual realism incurs a distinct set of ontological commitments and introduces the worry that the philosophy of the metaverse may result in

How to do robots with words: a performative view of the moral status of humans and nonhumans

Moral status arguments are typically formulated as descriptive statements that tell us something about the world. But philosophy of language teaches us that language can also be used performatively ... . It is not really an ascription but an acknowledgment of what is already there. However, across different traditions in philosophy of language, it has been argued that there is also a different kind of

Reinventing Black Womanhood: Alternative Media and Identity Discourse in the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Race

to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to

Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability

and justification in political philosophy . Ethics , 97 ( 1 ), 154 - 176 . Nissenbaum , H. ( 2009 ). Privacy in context: Technology, policy, and the integrity of social life . Stanford University Press ... 0 B. A. Kamphorst 1 Philosophy Section, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente , Twente , The Netherlands The public health measures implemented in response to

The contested role of AI ethics boards in smart societies: a step towards improvement based on board composition by sortition

political philosophy . Wiley-Blackwell. Harris , C. ( 2019 ). Mini-publics: Design choices and legitimacy . In S. Elstub & Ó. E. Rodríguez (Eds.), Handbook of democratic innovation and governance (pp. 45 - 59 ... built on the outdated governance model of the “wise king” where “ a ‘few’ experts tak[e] decisions in a top-down way” (Helbing, 2021) instead of a legitimate, genuine, and democratic “socio-political

Algorithmic legitimacy in clinical decision-making

understanding in political philosophy, legitimacy is the right to rule (Adams, 2018) . For a overview and discussion of political legitimacy covering both authority and decisions see Peter (2017) . problem ... claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Adams , N. P. ( 2018 ). Institutional legitimacy . Journal of Political Philosophy , 26 , 84 - 102 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12122 Alam , M

Digitising reflective equilibrium

the leading methodological tool in contemporary political philosophy (List & Valentini, 2016, p. 542) . It has even been called “the” method of philosophy tout court (Lewis, 1983, p. x) . Yet RE is ... bring their “considered judgements” about a moral and/or political situation into a state of coherence with a set of principles they develop to systematise them (Rawls, 1974, p. 8) . This state is to be

Digital twins, big data governance, and sustainable tourism

multidisciplinarity approach on political science, software engineering, tourism, and official statistics provides an opportunity for academic contribution and decision-making processes.

Automation, unemployment, and insurance

about the value of employment, and so is consistent with the demands of liberal political morality. Second, I appeal to the insurance argument to show that governments ought not simply to provide those ... University of Manchester and on ‘Economic Liberties, Human Fulfilment and Human Rights’ at the University of Arizona, as well as at one of the Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of

Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?

affect mean desire to call the police or perceived threat. However, political views moderate the effects of race: compared to politically moderate participants, very liberal participants express less ... vignette featuring young Black men. Conclusions The political polarization of desire to call the police raises questions about racially differentiated risk of more serious criminal justice system events

Is it Black and White? Testing racial framing effects of public reactions to newspaper vignettes of fatal officer-involved shootings

Professor of the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science at the University of Turku/Turun Yliopisto. His research interests include European and American political behavior. He ... environment in the models. Sample size and the number of conditions limited the use of multiple racial categories; thus, race is dichotomous: 0 = non-White and 1 = White. Second, we include political ideology

Dual-use implications of AI text generation

& M. Selgelid (Eds.), On the dual uses of science and ethics . ANU Press. Gardiner , S. M. ( 2006 ). A core precautionary principle . Journal of Political Philosophy , 14 ( 1 ), 33 - 60 . Gokaslan , A ... easily and efficiently generate fake articles to support specific viewpoints, discredit particular political regimes, or praise or slander particular products, people, or companies. As described above

Inauthenticity, Delusion, and Victimization: Interrogating Affective Rhetoric Targeting Trans* Youth

has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal

Specifying a principle of cryptographic justice as a response to the problem of going dark

), 503 - 519 . Waldron , J. ( 2003 ). Security and Liberty: The image of balance . Journal of Political Philosophy , 11 ( 2 ), 191 - 210 . https://doi.org/10. 1111/ 1467 - 9760 . 00174 Warren , S. D ... normative commitments to individual freedoms and regions experiencing political repression (Li et al., 2013, pp. 1272–1273; Jardine, 2018, pp. 448–449) . A ‘right to encrypt’ thus has value as it enables

Should we embrace “Big Sister”? Smart speakers as a means to combat intimate partner violence

 Philosophy and Monash Data Futures Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 1 IPV is gendered violence, with women overrepresented as victimsurvivors and men as perpetrators (World Health ... actions that smart speakers might be programmed to perform if they detect any of these states of affairs. In the fourth section, “Two challenges”, we discuss one ethical and political challenge and one

Reasons for Meaningful Human Control

”Meaningful human control” is a term invented in the political and legal debate on autonomous weapons system, but it is nowadays also used in many other contexts. It is supposed to specify conditions ... jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Alvarez , M. ( 2010 ). Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of Action . Oxford University Press. Brink , D. O. , & Nelkin , D. K

Military robots should not look like a humans

the legal, ethical, political and medical implications of using such robots (McFarland & Assaad, 2023) . This should be combined with a risk assessment and the introduction of mitigation measures ... which we get information about the external world. We cannot, for example, be sure about the internal states of other people and we have no direct access to them. In philosophy, there is a popular thought

The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems

). Architectural values, political affordances and selective permeability . Open Philosophy , 3 ( 1 ), 462 - 477 . Custers , B. , Dechesne , F. , Pieters , W. , Schermer , B. , & van der Hof , S. ( 2018 ). Consent ... and nature . Open Court. Dolin , R. ( 2021 ). Technology Issues in Legal Philosophy , in: Katz, D.M. , Dolin , R. , Bommarito , M.J . (Eds.) Legal Informatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics

ethics. The dominant narrative on AI ethics, backed up not only by some scholars, but also by political institutions such as the European Commission (EC), is that quick digital technological developments ... belong to different methodological and disciplinary traditions, including e.g. philosophy, sociology, management, media studies or computer science. See (Reijers et al., 2018). However, this narrative

Automating anticorruption?

political philosophy . In Proceedings of the conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency . https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1712. 03586 Bovens , M. , Goodin , R. , & Schillemans , T . (Eds ... malpractice (e.g., systemic bribery or clientelism—Miller, 2017; Philp, 1997; Thompson, 2018; Warren, 2004) . Accordingly, current studies of corruption in the social sciences and practical philosophy have