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523Issues, concepts and methods relating to the identification of the ethics of emerging ICTsCommunications of the IIMA 10 (1): 33-43. 2010.Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, their ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons policy makers are interested in finding out what these issues are and how they can be addressed. The best way of creating ICT policy that is sensitive …Read more
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960Defending extension theory: A response to Kiran and VerbeekPhilosophy and Technology 25 (1): 121-128. 2012.In a recent publication in this journal, Asle Kiran and Peter-Paul Verbeek (hereafter K&V) argue that extension theory and the notion of trust it implies are flawed. In this commentary, I defend extension theory against their critique. I first briefly introduce extension theory, then reconstruct K&V’s five arguments against extension theory and demonstrate that four of their five arguments are misplaced.
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1690Distributed selves: Personal identity and extended memory systemsSynthese 194 (8). 2017.This paper explores the implications of extended and distributed cognition theory for our notions of personal identity. On an extended and distributed approach to cognition, external information is under certain conditions constitutive of memory. On a narrative approach to personal identity, autobiographical memory is constitutive of our diachronic self. In this paper, I bring these two approaches together and argue that external information can be constitutive of one’s autobiographical memory a…Read more
Macquarie University
PhD, 2014
Tilburg, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Technology |
Technology Ethics |
Extended Selves |
Neuroethics |
PhilPapers Editorships
Extended Selves |