Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction by Aylsworth, Timothy

Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031456374)

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Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction by Aylsworth, Timothy

Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction

$59.99
Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction by Aylsworth, Timothy

Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction

$59.99
Format: Hardcover
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In this open access book, Tim Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate the vast scope of this problem. In the last decade, we have seen a flurry of books making "self-help" arguments about how we could live happier, more fulfilling lives if we were less addicted to our phones. But none of these authors see this issue as one involving a moral duty to protect our autonomy.

Author: Timothy Aylsworth, Clinton Castro
ISBN-10: 3031456378
ISBN-13: 9783031456374
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2024
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d
By Timothy Aylsworth
By Timothy Aylsworth
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Timothy Aylsworth is an assistant professor of philosophy at Florida International University. He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he wrote a dissertation on Kant's concept of freedom. He also works on issues in applied and normative ethics, especially topics involving autonomy, manipulation, technology, and collective harm.

Clinton Castro is an assistant professor in The Information School at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary areas of study are information ethics, fair machine learning, and epistemology. His recently published book, Algorithms and Autonomy (co-authored with Adam Pham and Alan Rubel), examines how algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections, and beyond affect autonomy, freedom, and democracy.

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