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Naked: The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life, by Krista Thomason (Book Review) (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1. 2018."Naked" is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in shame and its role in morality. The book is particularly timely given how common public shaming has become in online settings. Krista K. Thomason argues that, even though shame is a negative emotion with potentially damaging consequences, its dark side is outweighed by its moral benefits insofar as shame is constitutive of desirable moral commitments. According to the author, being liable to shame is constitutive of respecting other people’s …Read more
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We might be afraid of black-box algorithmsJournal of Medical Ethics 47. 2021.
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Testing the Motivational Strength of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global PovertyReview of Philosophy and Psychology 13 (3): 699-717. 2022.Two main types of philosophical arguments have been given in support of the claim that the citizens of affluent societies have stringent moral duties to aid the global poor: “positive duty” arguments based on the notion of beneficence and “negative duty” arguments based on noninterference. Peter Singer’s positive duty argument (Singer 1972) and Thomas Pogge’s negative duty argument (Pogge 2002) are among the most prominent examples. Philosophers have made speculative claims about the relative ef…Read more
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Self-Presentation and Privacy OnlineJournal of Practical Ethics 2 (9): 30-43. 2022.In this paper, I argue against views that equate privacy with control over self-presentation and explore some of the implications of my criticism for the online world. In section 1, I analyze the relationship between control over self-presentation and privacy and argue that, while they are both tightly connected, they are not one and the same thing. Distinguishing between control over self-presentation and privacy has important practical implications for the online world. In section 2, I investi…Read more
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Chatbots shouldn’t use emojisNature 615 375. 2023.
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover thirty-seven topics: from the right to have access to internet, to trolling and online shaming, speech on social media, fake news, sex robots and dating online, persuasive technology, value alignment, algorithmic bias, predictive policing, price discrimination online, medical AI, privacy and s…Read more
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Privacy Is PowerPenguin (Bantam Press). 2020.Selected by the Economist as one of the best books of 2020. Privacy Is Power argues that people should protect their personal data because privacy is a kind of power. If we give too much of our data to corporations, the wealthy will rule. If we give too much personal data to governments, we risk sliding into authoritarianism. For democracy to be strong, the bulk of power needs to be with the citizenry, and whoever has the data will have the power. Privacy, I argue, is not a personal preference;…Read more
University of Oxford
DPhil
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Technology Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
PhilPapers Editorships
Buddhist Ethics |