Free DownloadMarkus D. Dubber, "The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI "
English | ISBN: 019006739X | 2020 | 896 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of a general attempt to place current developments in historical context; at the same time, breaking new ground in taking on novel subjects and pursuing fresh approaches.
Free DownloadSustainable Digital Technology and Ethics in an Ever-Changing Environment: Volume 2
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031867076 | 1076 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 31 MB
Digital technology contributes to sustainability as it positively impacts society and environment, improves efficiency, and minimizes waste. It is best functioned when ethics in technology and privacy are fully considered. Digital ethics deals with the impact of digital information on societies and the environment. Issues that are of concern include privacy, information overload, Internet addiction, and robotics. Digital ethics pays special attention to developing rules and moral guidelines that individuals and companies should follow when interacting with technology. Digital ethics gives guidelines on what is the right thing to do and wrong thing to avoid. No doubt that the emergence of digital technologies such as IoT and AI can improve people’s life and organizations’ efficiency but should be appropriately governed. Today’s society places a growing emphasis on sustainability, and digital technologies as they are essential to attaining sustainable development. Digital technologies can be used to lessen negative environmental impact, conserve resources, and create communities that are more resilient. Digital technologies can help to promote sustainability through the utilization of renewable energy sources. Sustainable environmental practices can benefit from the transition to digital technology revolution. Sustainability solutions are developed and put into practice using a variety of technologies, including AI, big data analytics, IoT, social media, as well as mobile technology. To discover infections that occur in the river systems, for instance, smart water management systems, an AI-based technology, is being utilized. Data obtained from such technologies may be used to analyze the problem of water contamination and create and execute remedies. Additionally, through lowering waste and carbon emissions, AI, IoT, and Big Data analytics technologies improve the sustainability of corporate activities. Technology is an essential aspect of modern life, and it has transformed the way people communicate, work, and interact with each other drastically over the last few decades. While technology has brought many benefits, it has also created ethical challenges. Technology ethics is a field of study that seeks to understand and address the ethical challenges posed by the advancement and development of technology.
Free DownloadThe Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics) by Paul Scherz
English | October 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 0268209057 | 210 pages | True EPUB | 0.67 MB
Paul Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease.
Free DownloadSeumas Miller, "National Security Intelligence and Ethics "
English | ISBN: 0367758318 | 2021 | 316 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis.
Free DownloadFilm and Ethics : What Would You Have Done? By Jacqui Miller
2013 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 1443866466 | PDF | 1 MB
This book forms part of the multi-disciplinary Studies in Ethics Series from Liverpool Hope University. It explores the slipperiness of ethics as a concept and demonstrates the multiplicity of intellectual inquiry within contemporary Film Studies.At first glance, ‘ethics’ is not necessarily a subject conventionally associated with film. Film is often regarded as a form of ‘lowbrow’ popular culture, either offering bland entertainment or deliberately setting out to shock – or, more cynically, generate box office revenue – through gratuitous inclusion of sex and violence. Certainly, there have always been a minority of films based on the stereotypically ‘ethical’ subject of religion, but these have often generated the most controversy, from the studio system decree that it was blasphemous to represent the corporeal body of Christ to the furore surrounding Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). This book shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues. In this light, the definition of ethics that informs the volume and is taken as the starting point of each of the chapters is the notion of personal or institutional motivation; most usually because a character or industry figure makes a decision or choice based on their own moral – or ethical – code. Once this is defined, the ethical dimension to films is immediately evident.This book takes as its central theme the difficulty of decisions refracted through personal ethical codes, and thus recognises that what counts as ethics, or morality, is always subjective. Some of the chapters explore films which take conventionally ‘good’ ethical standpoints, others investigate why ‘bad’ decisions were made; at least one explores the celebration of practices invoking popular disgust, but all the contributions study ethical decisions within film that represent the strongly felt convictions of those involved and, moreover, address aspects of filmmaking which force the spectator to be an active and reciprocal participant in the creation of meaning, thus implicitly acknowledging that ethics are subjective and in perpetual flux rather than fixed, objective truths.
Free DownloadGiulia Bonasio, "The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics"
English | ISBN: 0197801307 | 2025 | 232 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Based on the most recent Greek edition of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (EE), The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics provides a fresh look at the treatise, arguing that all the virtues-of character, of practical and theoretical thinking-form a unity in the sense that they function together. Giulia Bonasio refers to this unity as Functional Unity. She approaches the EE as a treatise in its own right aside from the connections with the Nicomachean Ethics and shows that understanding its philosophical proposal is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle’s ethics. The EE defends a unity of the virtues that is more comprehensive than the unity of practical wisdom and the character virtues, which is traditionally ascribed to the Nicomachean Ethics.
Free DownloadEthics as Scales of Forms By Richard Allen
2014 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1443856827 | PDF | 1 MB
This book is an important contribution to moral philosophy, and also to moral theology. It overcomes the dichotomising fragmentation of much contemporary moral philosophy which tends to take one aspect or component of moral activity, such as the consequences of actions, rules or intentions, and to make it the only one. The book employs an adaptation of Collingwood’s scheme of ‘scales of forms’ to provide a synthesis which does justice to all aspects and components by placing each aspect, or component, on a scale in which each lower one presupposes the next higher and each higher one needs to be appropriately enacted and expressed in the next lower one. The lowest of all is that of the consequences of single actions and the highest, in which all the others are fulfilled, is that of the unique person as essentially an ens amans, a loving being.That scale is itself insufficient, for it in turn presupposes a scale of values and ends to be realised and pursued, and thus overcomes another false dichotomy, that of deontological (duty) versus axiological (value) ethics, for duties without values and ends are pointless and arbitrary, and values and ends without duties are of no moral significance. The order of types of love, from mere liking and enjoyment to love of the unique person, provides an appropriate scale, integrated with one of various types of fulfilment, pleasure-happiness-virtue, whose summit, love itself, is also that of the previous scale. Thus insofar as we become what we ought to be, then, ceteris paribus, we shall also find our true fulfilment.At each point, relevant texts from Greek to contemporary European philosophy, along with mentions of some other world- and life-views, are cited to illustrate and give substance to the argument.
