Technologically Mediated Phronesis and the Necessity for Mindful Design
Project dates (estimated):
September 2022 - August 2026
Name of the PhD student:
Andrew S. Zelny
Supervisors:
Shannon Vallor – School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Zachary Horne - School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Project aims:
The aims of this project are twofold:
1) To provide a technological mediation account of the Aristotelian virtue of phronesis, illustrating the mediating role technologies play in the development and character of practical deliberation.
2) To make the normative claim that there exists a moral imperative to mindfully design, develop, and deploy technologies towards promoting phronesis rather than diminishing it.
By the end of this project, Andrew looks to provide a framework for understanding technologies effects on practical wisdom to better direct future mindful design.
Disciplines and subfields engaged:
Virtue Ethics
Philosophy of Technology
Moral Psychology
Sociology of Technology
Research Themes:
Ethics of Human-Machine Interaction
Ethics of Affective and Social Technologies
Emerging Technology and Human Identity
AI, Automation and Human Wisdom
Emerging Tech and Human Autonomy
Emerging Technology, Health and Flourishing
Emerging Tech and Human Flourishing
Related outputs:
Presented on the relationship between Technologically mediated phronesis and Technomoral Change on the Mobilising Technomoral Knowledge panel at the Society for Philosophy & Technology Conference 2023 in Toyko .