Interpreting Technology: Ricoeur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology
Wessel Reijers · Alberto Romele · Mark Coeckelbergh
May 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paul Ricœur has been one of the most influential and intellectually challenging philosophers of the last century, and his work has contributed to a vast array of fields: studies of language, of history, of ethics and politics. However, he has up until recently only had a minor impact on the philosophy of technology. Interpreting Technology aims to put Ricœur’s work at the centre of contemporary philosophical thinking concerning technology. It investigates his project of critical hermeneutics for rethinking established theories of technology, the growing ethical and political impacts of technologies on the modern lifeworld, and ways of analysing global sociotechnical systems such as the Internet. Ricœur’s philosophy allows us to approach questions such as: how could narrative theory enhance our understanding of technological mediation? How can our technical practices be informed by the ethical aim of living the good life, with and for others, in just institutions? And how does the emerging global media landscape shape our sense of self, and our understanding of history? These questions are more timely than ever, considering the enormous impact technologies have on daily life in the 21st century: on how we shape ourselves with health apps, how we engage with one-another through social media, and how we act politically through digital platforms.
About the author
Wessel Reijers is a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. His research focuses on the philosophy and ethics of technology, notably on the development of a critical hermeneutical approach to technology and the investigation of the role of emerging technologies in the shaping of citizenship in the 21st century. He completed his PhD at the Dublin City University with a Dissertation entitled "Practising Narrative Virtue Ethics of Technology in Research and Innovation". He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Philosophy and Technology, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Organization on the topics of blockchain technology and social contract theory, an approach to technology based on Ricoeur's narrative theory, and a philosophical investigation of the digital commons. Furthermore, he has co-edited a special issue for the journal Philosophy and Technology on financial technologies.
Alberto Romele is associate professor in philosophy of technology at the ETHICS Lab of the Lille Catholic University. He is also lecturing at the University of Paris Nanterre. He has been assistant professor at the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France), postdoctoral researcher of the Portuguese National Research Foundation at the University of Porto, and "Oratoire-Ricoeur" fellow at the Fonds Ricoeur in Paris. He is currently co-principal investigator of the research project "From Data to Wisdom" funded by the research program FCT-Portugal2020 and of the research project ArTeC (Paris Saint-Denis and Paris Nanterre) "The Technological Imaginaries of the Self". He has published articles on hermeneutics, technologies, and theories of the digital in international journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Surveillance & Society, AI & Society, Policy & Internet, and Techné Research in Philosophy and Technology. He has recently edited the volume Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His book Digital Hermeneutics will appear in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series in autumn 2019.
Mark Coeckelbergh is a philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He also has an affiliation as Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK (staff page). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, the Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media, the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, and Kairos, Journal of Philosophy & Science. He is the author of the books Liberation and Passion (2002), The Metaphysics of Autonomy (2004), Imagination and Principles (2007), Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), Environmental Skill (2015), Money Machines (2015), New Romantic Cyborgs (2017), Using Words and Things (2017), Moved by Machines (2019), and numerous articles in the area of ethics and technology, including ICT and robotics and technology in medicine and health care.
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