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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Probing the relation between technology and morality
Chapter 1. Morality as an ecosystem
Chapter 2. Technological mediation of morality
Chapter 3. Technological appropriation and moral hermeneutics
Chapter 4. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis as a method to study moral hermeneutics
Chapter 5. Hermeneutic lemniscate as an encompassing principle of moral sense-making mediated by technologies
Conclusion. Reflecting on the moral hermeneutics study from the perspectives of technology design and governance
