Artificial Dispositions
Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical Issues
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350336155
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts?
This collection investigates artificial dispositions: what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. It is divided into four parts covering the following interconnected themes: (i) Artificial and Natural Dispositions, (ii) Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions, (iii) Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions, and (iv) Artificial Moral Dispositions.
This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, William A. Bauer (North Carolina State University, USA) and Anna Marmodoro (University of Oxford, UK)
Part I. Artificial and Natural Dispositions
1. Is There a Metaphysically Robust Distinction between Artificial and Natural Dispositions?, Joaquim Giannotti (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
2. The Metaphysics of Artificial Dispositions, Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
3. Classification and Artificial Dispositions, Andrew McFarland (LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA)
Part II. Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions
4. Artificial Systems as Disposition Bearers, Lauren Ashwell (Bates College, USA)
5. Harnessing Power, Neil E. Williams (University at Buffalo, USA)
Part III. Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions
6. What Superheroes Can Teach Us About the Metaphysics of Human Enhancement Technology, Sungho Choi (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
7. Intelligent Capacities in Artificial Systems, Atoosa Kasirzadeh (University of Edinburgh and The Alan Turing Institute, UK) and Victoria McGeer (Australian National University, Australia, and Princeton University, USA)
8. Powerful Qualities, Phenomenal Properties and AI, Ashley Coates (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Part IV. Artificial Moral Dispositions
9. The Very Notion of Artificial Moral Agency. The Case and Place of Artificial Moral Dispositions, Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria and the South African Centre for AI Research, South Africa)
10. Is AI Capable of Aristotelian Full Moral Virtue? The Rational Power of phronesis, Machine Learning, and the Metaphysics of Regularity, Ruth Porter Groff (Saint Louis University, USA) and John Symons (University of Kansas, USA)
11. Artificial Moral Dispositions in Humans and Computers, Thomas Powers (University of Delaware, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index
