Ethics in an age of pervasive technology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melvin Kranzberg.
• Editors: Kranzberg, Melvin
• Contents: Also of Interest -- Introduction -- The Challenge -- Today's Human Condition: Old or New? -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Lost in the Fog -- The Survival Problem -- World Hysteria -- Nothing New -- Is Technology Ethically Neutral? -- Where Are We Going? -- The Incompatibility of Values -- Reflections on Culture and Religion in a Postindustrial Age -- Old and/or New Ethics? -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Technology and the Law -- Why Heteronomous Ethics? -- Modern Technology and Judeo-Christian Ethics -- What Ancient Ethics Can Contribute -- Science, Natural Law, and Ethics-A Jewish Perspective -- Education for "Moral Intelligence" -- On the Consecration and Secularization of Science -- The Equivocal Role of Philosophy -- Scientific Ethics -- The Partnership of Ethics and Technology -- Ecology and Ethics -- Rational Ethics and Human Nature -- Man and the Man-Made -- Technoethics -- Religious Means and Ethical Ends -- Translating Ethics into Action -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Individual Consciousness and Responsibility -- Science and Conscience -- The Social Responsibility of Scientists -- Broadening Engineering Education-The Technological Imperative -- Ethical Models -- The Ethical Imperative of Architecture -- The Powerlessness of Engineers -- Industry and the Environment -- Technology and Institutions -- Morality in Industry -- The Message of the Kibbutz -- Adapting Behavior -- Information, Decision Making, and Bureaucratization -- Human Engineering of Decisions -- Virtue and Practicality -- Probabilities and Trade-offs -- Joining Morality and Power -- Introduction to Part 4 -- Making Morality Effective -- Dangers of the Parochial View -- The Ethics of Nonpower -- The Heuristics of Fear -- The Mount Carmel Declaration -- Introduction to Part 5 -- The Mount Carmel Declaration on Technology and Moral Responsibility -- Postlude -- Introduction to Part 6 -- Reflections on the Mount Carmel Declaration
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 170; Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses; Technologie -- Aspect moral; Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Ethik; Technik; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Social; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Ethiek; Technologie; Technologie - Aspect moral; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429051692; 0429051697; 9780429708008; 0429708009; 9780429728013; 0429728018; 9780429748028; 0429748027
• Related ISBNs: 9780367021832
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 11, 2019).
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