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Nudging, Big Data, And Well-Being
This article originally appeared in the Monday Magazine of 3 Quarks Daily, see here. We often make bad choices. We eat sugary foods too often, we don’t save enough for retirement, and we don’t get enough exercise. Helpfully, the modern world presents us with a plethora of ways to overcome these weaknesses of our will.…
The ‘Soft’ Impacts of Emerging Technology
This article was originally published in the Monday Magazine of 3 Quarks Daily, see here. Getting a handle on the various ways that technology influences us is as important as it is difficult. The media is awash with claims of how this or that technology will either save us or doom us. And in some cases,…
Virtue Ethics, Technology, and the Situationist Challenge
This article originally appeared in the Monday Magazine of 3 Quarks Daily, see here. In a previous article I argued that, when it comes to our moral appraisal of emerging technologies, the best normative framework to use is that of virtue ethics. The reasons for this were that virtue ethics succeeds in ways that consequentialist or deontological…
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