Philosophical Disquisitions Podcast
1) TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A
In this episode, John and Sven answer questions from podcast listeners. Topics covered include: the relationships between animal ethics and AI ethics; religion and philosophy of tech; the analytic-con...Show More
2) TITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures
What does the future hold for humanity's relationship with technology? Will we become ever more integrated with and dependent on technology? What are the normative and axiological consequences of this...Show More
3) TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers
In this episode, Sven and John talk about relationships with machines. Can you collaborate with a machine? Can robots be friends, colleagues or, perhaps, even lovers? These are common tropes in scienc...Show More
4) TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?
In this episode Sven and John discuss the moral status of machines, particularly humanoid robots. Could machines ever be more than mere things? Some people see this debate as a distraction from the im...Show More
5) TITE 6 - Moral Agency in Machines
In this episode, Sven and John discuss the controversy arising from the idea moral agency in machines. What is an agent? What is a moral agent? Is it possible to create a machine with a sense of moral...Show More
6) TITE 5 - Technology and Responsibility Gaps
In this episode Sven and John discuss the thorny topic of responsibility gaps and technology. Over the past two decades, a small cottage industry of legal and philosophical research has arisen in rela...Show More
7) TITE 4 - Behaviour Change and Control
In this episode, John and Sven talk about the role that technology can play in changing our behaviour. In doing so, they note the long and troubled history of philosophy and self-help. They also ponde...Show More
8) TITE 3 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem
In this episode, John and Sven discuss risk and technology ethics. They focus, in particular, on the perennially popular and widely discussed problems of value alignment (how to get technology to alig...Show More
9) TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics
In this episode, John and Sven discuss the methods of technology ethics. What exactly is it that technology ethicists do? How can they answer the core questions about the value of technology and our m...Show More
10) New Podcast Series - 'This is Technology Ethics'
I am very excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series with my longtime friend and collaborator Sven Nyholm. The podcast is intended to introduce key themes, concepts, arguments and ideas ar...Show More