نوع مقاله : پژوهشی

نویسنده

عضو هیئت علمی پژوهشگاه علوم و فناوری اطلاعات ایران (ایرانداک)، پژوهشکده جامعه و اطلاعات، گروه اخلاق و حقوق اطلاعات

چکیده

 
 


چکیده
در این مقاله بر اساس سه معنای وساطت تکنولوژی نزد برونو لاتور، یعنی وساطت ترکیب، ترجمه و واگذاری، از سه معنای اخلاقی بودن تکنولوژی سخن خواهیم گفت. تکنولوژی بخشی از کنش‌های اخلاقی ماست، ما برخی از کنش‌های اخلاقی را به تکنولوژی واگذار می‌کنیم، و نیز تکنولوژی می‌تواند قصدها و انگیزهای اخلاقاً مهمی را در کاربر ایجاد کند. سپس بحثی را راجع به مسئولیت اخلاقی مطرح خواهیم کرد و با تفکیک مسئولیت از تقصیر نشان خواهیم داد که کنش‌های شبکه‌‌ای مستلزم سلب مسئولیت انسان یا اعطای مسئولیت به تکنولوژی نیستند و با این حال می‌توان به شکل معناداری از «مجازات تکنولوژی» نیز سخن گفت

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله [English]

Do artifacts have morality? Bruno Latour and ethics of technology

نویسنده [English]

  • Rahman Sharifzadeh

Faculty Member of Iran Institute of Information Science and Technology (IRANDAK), Research Institute of Society and Information

چکیده [English]

 
Do Artifacts Have Morality?

Bruno Latour and Technology Ethics
In this paper, discussing Bruno Latour’s concept of technological mediation, we will claim that according to three kinds of technological mediations there would be three kinds of relations between morality and technology; Technology is part of our ethical actions, we delegate some of our ethical actions to technology, and technology can create, or change, our ethically important intentions. We will then discuss moral responsibility. Separating responsibility from accountability, we will show that networked actions neither nullify human’s moral responsibility nor grant moral responsibility to technology, yet meaningfully, we can talk about ‘technology punishment’.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Bruno Latour
  • Mediation
  • Technology Ethics
  • Moral Responsibility
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