ENGR 482 Exam 3 Question and Answers
T/F: According to the "Common Sense View," technological artifacts take on moral properties when used
for good or evil by humans. - Ans:-False- this view is that artifacts have no moral properties in
themselves.
T/F: The difference b/w the "Common Sense" and...
-We ascribe right or wrong (good or bad) to humans and their actions
Strong View (Latour) - Ans:✔✔--"morality is inside the things"; artifacts DO have moral properties
-Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
-Attributes moral relevance to artifacts whose existence perpetuates moral values
-Believe some combo of subject and object should be though of as one and the same entity
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) - Ans:✔✔--Objects serve as "actors" or "actants"
-Not possible to uphold the boundary b/w humans and artifacts
Strong View (Winner) - Ans:✔✔--Objects "embody a systematic social inequality" that becomes "part of
the social landscape"
-Example of Robert Moses' designs
-Therefore, artifacts embody morality
Strong View (Verbeek) - Ans:✔✔--"Moral agency is distributed over both humans and technological
artifacts"
-Humans and artifacts don't have separate existence anymore
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