
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
Available from Oxford University Press and other booksellers
2016. $39.95, 309 pp. Hardcover, Paperback, and e-book
Available from Oxford University Press and other booksellers
2016. $39.95, 309 pp. Hardcover, Paperback, and e-book
- Applies classical Aristotelian, Confucian and Buddhist philosophical accounts of virtue to the new challenges of living well in globally networked societies. The book argues for the unique value of virtue ethics as a moral framework for the 21st century human condition, in which the future of an increasingly interdependent and networked human family is clouded by uncertainty, instability, complexity and risk. It offers an account of the technomoral virtues vital to our flourishing in this new environment, and how they can help us meet urgent ethical challenges from today's emerging technologies: military and social robotics, new social media, digital surveillance and self-tracking, and biomedical enhancement.