Advanced search    

Search: Political Philosophy

567 papers found.
Use AND, OR, NOT, +word, -word, "long phrase", (parentheses) to fine-tune your search.

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

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 built on the outdated governance model of the “wise king” where “ a ‘few’ experts tak[e] decisions in a top-down way” (Helbing, 2021) instead of a legitimate, genuine, and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

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

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

Reading propositions: a perspective of the archive of production in the fields of Philosophy and Philosophy of Education in the 30 years of the Brazilian journal Pro-Posições

In this article we aim to collect and comment on the production in the fields of Philosophy and of Philosophy of Education published during the 30 years of the Pro-Posições journal. To do so, we ... decade, between 2000 and 2009, brings to light a series of analyses concerning the millenary challenges for the field of Education, mainly the ethical-political problematization of society in general; the

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

Person, thing, Robot: a moral and legal ontology for the 21st century and beyond: by David Gunkel

conceptual order to understand robots. In this part, his reliance on Levinas’ philosophy is especially noticeable. One might reasonably wonder if it is really necessary to get involved in this more or less ... intellectual traditions of Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Christian concepts. Thus, moving beyond this constrained logic allows us to prevent western ethnocentrism and welcome diverse traditions into the

The seven troubles with norm-compliant robots

will critique this postulate throughout this paper. When we consult the sociological, philosophical, and political literature about norms, it becomes clear that we should not assume that following them ... frequently follow norms that conflict with their ethical or political views. While at other times, people acquire, observe, or abandon norms for unpredictable, often arbitrary reasons. In the next section, we

Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens

& Littlefield. Crawford , N. C. ( 2007 ). Individual and collective Moral responsibility for systemic military atrocity . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 15 ( 2 ), 187 - 212 . Davidson , D. ( 2001 ). Essays ... . ( 2001 ). Collective Moral responsibility . Journal of Social Philosophy , 32 , 573 - 584 . Cortright , D. , & Lopez , G . (Eds.). ( 2002 ). A (eds.). Smart Sanctions:Targeting Economic Statecraft. Rowman