Essays about: "ethical naturalism"

Found 4 essays containing the words ethical naturalism.

  1. 1. Between Power and Resistance: Viewing the Ethics of AI through the Application of Foucault's Ethical Naturalism to the Power Dynamics Embedded in the Debate over Intimate Human/Chatbot Relationships

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Timothy Andrew York; [2023]
    Keywords : Artificial intelligence ethics; Values in Design; chatbot; Foucault; ethical naturalism; technologies of the self; social control; human-AI relationships; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Amid rising worry around human and AI alignment and citing concerns for data privacy and content inappropriate for children and the “emotionally vulnerable”, the Italian government recently imposed a complete ban against the Replika chatbot within Italy. Following the issuance of the ban and citing similar concerns over safety, the designer/owner of the technology, Luka, Inc. READ MORE

  3. 2. Artificial Intelligence: The implications of current technological developments for Harry Collins epistemological theory and his critique of the possibilities of a general AI.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Marita Isaksson; [2018-10-29]
    Keywords : Harry Collins; artificial intelligence; epistemology;

    Abstract : Social constructivism and Harry Collins epistemological theory put focus on the sociology of scientific knowledge, scientific practice and the nature of expertise. From his theory, inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ‘forms of life’ and David Bloor’s strong programme, Collins has from the nineties until today argued against the possibilities of creating a general artificial intelligence, which can be compared with any cognitive functions that a human accommodates. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ethics Naturalized : Naturalism as Explanatory Structure in Metaethics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Ethics; Evolution; Emotivism; Metaethics; Naturalism; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate what implications a naturalized account of metaethics could have for our understanding of ethics and to advance a type of ethical naturalism that is non-reductionist. During the course of the study several different approaches to metaethics are investigated and critically evaluated, before a positive account of ethical naturalism is delivered. READ MORE

  5. 4. Why Human Virtues Obtain in the Natural World

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Naturalism; Virtue-ethics; Weltanschauung; Language game; Aristotle; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : This essay aims to connect naturalism and virtue-ethics to a form of realism about values. The thesis advanced in the essay relies heavily on the Wittgensteinian concepts language-game and weltanschauung as explanatory tools for how values can be both real and unreal, both objective and subjective, both at the same time but not from the same perspective. READ MORE