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SUMMARY:An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good I
 ntentions are Not Enough - Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University)
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CONTACT:Rami Aly
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn this talk I critically evaluate the value neut
 rality thesis regarding technology\, and find it wanting. I then introduce
  the various ways in which artifacts can come to influence moral value\, a
 nd our evaluation of moral situations and actions. Here\, following van de
  Poel and Kroes\, I introduce the idea of value sensitive design. Specific
 ally\, I show how by virtue of their designed properties\, artifacts may c
 ome to embody values. Such accounts\, however\, have several shortcomings.
  In agreement with Michael Klenk\, I raise epistemic and metaphysical issu
 es with respect to designed properties embodying value. The concept of an 
 affordance\, borrowed from ecological psychology\, provides a more philoso
 phically fruitful grounding to the potential way(s) in which artifacts mig
 ht embody values. This is due to the way in which it incorporates key insi
 ghts from perception more generally\, and how we go about determining poss
 ibilities for action in our environment specifically. This account draws o
 ur attention to the ways that values might become embodied in technologica
 l artifacts despite the best of intentions.\n\n\nBio:\n\nFabio Tollon is a
  doctoral candidate at Bielefeld University\, in the department of philoso
 phy\, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG\, German Research
  Foundation) – as part of the GRK 2073 “Integrating Ethics and Epistem
 ology of Scientific Research”. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Art
 ificial Intelligence Research (CAIR)\, and an external collaborator at the
  Unit for the Ethics of Technology at Stellenbosch University. Before comi
 ng to Europe he studied at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.\n\nTop
 ic: NLIP Seminar Time: March 03\, 2023 12:00 PM London\n\nJoin Zoom Meetin
 g https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94330375053?pwd=TjRtbTg5aUdzWVdLRU15RjR0V
 2g0Zz09\n\nMeeting ID: 943 3037 5053 Passcode: 768471\n\n
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom)
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