In his article, Joffrey Becker (2022) gives an overview over the three main challenges for social anthropology on robotics and AI. These challenges also raise questions of different scientific fields like engineering, philosophy of technology or science-and-technology-studies. For the sake… Read More ›
Using examples from an ethnographic survey I conducted with manufacturers, researchers and users of so-called intelligent systems, this paper seeks to show that the relationship between humans and machines raises at least three categories of problems. The first one refers… Read More ›
Step 3: Provision of Means by which New Discoveries will Force Retesting Science, mathematics, and ethics each have a history in which some claims which were tested many lifetimes ago are now considered outdated. New background assumptions became available, and… Read More ›
This essay seeks to advance a discussion to meet the needs of designers of technologies–including of institutions–which are meant to help users accurately answer questions about reality, including questions about nature and morality. Specifically, it helps clarify the list of… Read More ›
Without intending to be distasteful, let alone insensitive, it seems fitting that the publication of Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism (2021) by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen should take place during… Read More ›
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0 The following interview with Steve Fuller, conducted by Tikhon Sysoev, appeared in the 23 November 2020 edition of Expert, the Russian equivalent of Economist magazine. The interview appeared under the title: “Стив Фуллер:… Read More ›
Author Information: Mirko Farina, King’s College London, mirko.farina@kcl.ac.uk. Farina, Mirko. “Exploring the Concepts of Science in 166 Pages: Reviewing Nigel Sanitt.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 4 (2019): 28-33. The pdf of the article gives specific page… Read More ›
Author Information: Damien Williams, Virginia Tech, damienw7@vt.edu Williams, Damien. “Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 2 (2018): 64-69. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3US… Read More ›
Author Information: Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas, robert.frodeman@unt.edu Frodeman, Robert. “The Politics of AI.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 1 (2018): 48-49. The pdf of the article provides specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3To New York Times columnist Thomas… Read More ›