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982Can Artificial Entities Assert?In Sanford C. Goldberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Assertion, Oxford University Press. pp. 415-436. 2018.There is an existing debate regarding the view that technological instruments, devices, or machines can assert or testify. A standard view in epistemology is that only humans can testify. However, the notion of quasi-testimony acknowledges that technological devices can assert or testify under some conditions, without denying that humans and machines are not the same. Indeed, there are four relevant differences between humans and instruments. First, unlike humans, machine assertion is not im…Read more
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950Towards the Epistemology of the Internet of Things Techno-Epistemology and Ethical Considerations Through the Prism of TrustInternational Review of Information Ethics 22 6-22. 2014.This paper discusses the epistemology of the Internet of Things [IoT] by focusing on the topic of trust. It presents various frameworks of trust, and argues that the ethical framework of trust is what constitutes our responsibility to reveal desired norms and standards and embed them in other frameworks of trust. The first section briefly presents the IoT and scrutinizes the scarce philosophical work that has been done on this subject so far. The second section suggests that the field of epistem…Read more
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909Review: Cass R. Sunstein. Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas. 304 pp. Simon & Schuster, 2014 (review)Spontaneous Generations 8 (1): 100-104. 2016.None Provided.
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879Trust and Distributed Epistemic LaborIn Judith Simon (ed.), The Routledge Handbook on Trust and Philosophy, Routledge. 2020.This chapter explores properties that bind individuals, knowledge, and communities, together. Section 1 introduces Hardwig’s argument from trust in others’ testimonies as entailing that trust is the glue that binds individuals into communities. Section 2 asks “what grounds trust?” by exploring assessment of collaborators’ explanatory responsiveness, formal indicators such as affiliation and credibility, appreciation of peers’ tacit knowledge, game-theoretical considerations, and the role mo…Read more
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623A Hebrew Celebration of Philosophy of Technology (Published as: A Brief History of Philosophy of Technology) [Hebrew, Preprint] (review)Haaretz, Literature, October 28, 2016 8-9. 2016.A review of Galit Wellner's translation (to Hebrew) of Don Ihde's (2009) "Postphenomenology and Technoscience".
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547The Philosophy of Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously (review)Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (9): 51-61. 2019.During the last few decades, the proliferation of interest in conspiracy theories became a widespread phenomenon in our culture, and also in academia. In this piece, I review a new book on the topic of conspiracy theory theory (that is-the theory of conspiracy theories) Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously, edited by M R. X. Dentith. To contextualize the review, I first turn to the '90s, to see what sparked current interest in conspiracy theories within the field of analytic philosophy. I then c…Read more
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330Making Sense of the Conceptual Nonsense 'Trustworthy AI'AI and Ethics 4. 2022.Following the publication of numerous ethical principles and guidelines, the concept of 'Trustworthy AI' has become widely used. However, several AI ethicists argue against using this concept, often backing their arguments with decades of conceptual analyses made by scholars who studied the concept of trust. In this paper, I describe the historical-philosophical roots of their objection and the premise that trust entails a human quality that technologies lack. Then, I review existing criticisms …Read more
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84AI-Testimony, Conversational AIs and Our Anthropocentric Theory of TestimonySocial Epistemology. forthcoming.The ability to interact in a natural language profoundly changes devices’ interfaces and potential applications of speaking technologies. Concurrently, this phenomenon challenges our mainstream theories of knowledge, such as how to analyze linguistic outputs of devices under existing anthropocentric theoretical assumptions. In section 1, I present the topic of machines that speak, connecting between Descartes and Generative AI. In section 2, I argue that accepted testimonial theories of knowledg…Read more
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59Speaking with conversational AIs, technologies whose interfaces enable human-like interaction based on natural language, has become a common phenomenon. During these interactions, people form their beliefs due to the say-so of conversational AIs. In this paper, I consider, and then reject, the concepts of testimony-based beliefs and instrument-based beliefs as suitable for analysis of beliefs acquired from these technologies. I argue that the concept of instrument-based beliefs acknowledges the …Read more
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20Knowledge in a Conspiratorial World (review)The Berlin Review of Books. 2017.A review of M. R. X. Dentith's (2014) The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories.
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5Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination CampaignMinerva 61 (3): 357-381. 2023.This paper examines the trust relations involved in Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, focusing on vaccine hesitancy and the concept of ‘trust’. The first section offers a conceptual analysis of ‘trust’. Instead of analyzing trust in the vaccination campaign as a whole, a few objects of trust are identified and examined. In section two, the Israeli vaccination campaign is presented, and the focus is placed on vaccine hesitancy. In section three, different trust relations are examined: publi…Read more
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CBDC Governance: Programmability, Privacy and PoliciesCentre for International Governance Innovation's Digital Policy Hub Working Papers. 2024.• Central banks are exploring, developing and implementing a new form of money: central bank digital currency (CBDC). In short, it is a digital version of a country’s currency issued by its central bank. • While significant research has focused on the economic and technological aspects, the governance perspective has not received enough consideration. This paper focuses on the topics of programmability and surveillance — from a governance perspective. • Two concepts of programmability are discus…Read more
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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Trust |
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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
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