Key Terms for the Midterm:
- Notions; Technocratic Notion, Enlightenment Notion, Counter-enlightenment Notion
- Determinism: Technological determinism (Samurai and guns), hard/soft
- Social Constructivism (Amish and cellphones) & Co-Constructivism
- Falsifiability
- Value: Instrumental Valuation / Inherent Valuation
- Conceptual Clarity
- Forms of Life
- Technological Somnambulism
- Born from: new worlds technology creates, viewing technology as tools we put down at any time, separation of makers and users
- Narrative: Intention, Artifact and Desire (rock to car window)
- Logical Malleability
- The Invisibility Factor
- Utalitarianism
- Consequentialism
- Hedonism
- Aggregative
- Deontology
- Categorical
- Formula of Universal Law
- Step 1) Identify Implicit Maxim, Step 2) Apply it to everyone, Step 3) Imagine the world now
- Formula of End in Itself
- Morally Important Things and Mere Things
- Justice as Fairness
- Original Position
- Veil of Ignorance
- Difference Principle
- Social Contract Theory
- State of Nature
- Artificial Intelligence / Intelligence Amplification
- PUST / PEST Model
- Emergent Properties
Questions Discussed in Class:
- Define Science
- Which type of technological assessment do we need to wake up from technological somnambulism?
- What’s the difference between the 3 categories of Artifacts having politics?
- Define technology as a narrative (David Nye)
- What is David Nye’s defense against claims that he is a Technological Determinist?
- How does technology shape our Forms of Life?
- How does Logical Malleability make computers different?
- What are “legitimate non-technical critiques of science and technology?”
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