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387Infosphere to Ethosphere Moral Mediators in the Nonviolent Transformation of Self and WorldInternational Journal of Technoethics 1-19This paper reviews the complex, overlapping ideas of two prominent Italian philosophers, Lorenzo Magnani and Luciano Floridi, with the aim of facilitating the nonviolent transformation of self and world, and with a focus on information technologies in mediating this process. In Floridi’s information ethics, problems of consistency arise between self-poiesis, anagnorisis, entropy, evil, and the narrative structure of the world. Solutions come from Magnani’s work in distributed morality, moral med…Read more
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478Understanding and augmenting human morality: the actwith model of conscienceIn L. Magnani (ed.), computational intelligence, . 2009.Abstract. Recent developments, both in the cognitive sciences and in world events, bring special emphasis to the study of morality. The cognitive sci- ences, spanning neurology, psychology, and computational intelligence, offer substantial advances in understanding the origins and purposes of morality. Meanwhile, world events urge the timely synthesis of these insights with tra- ditional accounts that can be easily assimilated and practically employed to augment moral judgment, both to solve cur…Read more
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861Ryan Tonkens (2009) has issued a seemingly impossible challenge, to articulate a comprehensive ethical framework within which artificial moral agents (AMAs) satisfy a Kantian inspired recipe - both "rational" and "free" - while also satisfying perceived prerogatives of Machine Ethics to create AMAs that are perfectly, not merely reliably, ethical. Challenges for machine ethicists have also been presented by Anthony Beavers and Wendell Wallach, who have pushed for the reinvention of traditional e…Read more
Jeffrey White
Okinawa Institute Of Science And Technology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Okinawa Institute Of Science And TechnologyComputational Neuroscience/Humanities And Social SciencesOther (Part-time)
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