Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2015, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal
CONFUSED BY ROBOTS:
THINKING ABOUT NON-HUMANS BEYOND ONTOLOGY
Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh
Hörsaal 2i, Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), 2. Stock
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
New and emerging technologies create confusions about the ontological status of entities such as intelligent and moving robots or virtual artificial agents, and shake up our ethics. What are they? And how should we treat them (and vice versa), given what they are? Similar discussions take place about animals. In this lecture I argue that moving away from ontological questions to phenomenological and epistemological questions may help us to achieve a more critical-philosophical, nondogmatic approach to reflecting on technology and on our relation to non-humans. Using robots and information technology as an example and taking inspiration from philosophy of language, (post)phenomenology/hermeneutics, and process philosophy, I show how language and social relations shape our experience/knowledge and practices with regards to these entities, and how in this process we also emerge and are constituted in specific ways. I end with a brief exploration of the moral and political implications of this view.
Mark Coeckelbergh ist Professor am Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility an der De Montfort University, UK, und ab 1. Dezember 2015 Professor für Medien- und Technikphilosophie am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien.
Veranstalter
Kontakt
Gertrud Wachter
Institut für Philosophie
Sekretariat
4277-46401
gertrud.wachter@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015, 13:17
Letzte Änderung am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2015, 15:02