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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...

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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 "Strong" views toward the morality of technological

artifacts is a matter of the degree to which people blame artifacts for immoral actions. - Ans:✔✔-False-

there is a fundamental difference b/w the views regarding whether artifacts can be held morally

responsible for certain actions.


Why are Robert Moses' architectural designs indicative of Langdon Winner's view of the moral

properties of artifacts (the "Strong View")? - Ans:✔✔-Moral values are built into his designs, which come

to embody these values.


T/F: Bruno Latour, reflecting the "Strong View" toward technological artifacts, believed artifacts are

morally considerable because they work as actants alongside human beings in a responsible network. -

Ans:✔✔-True


What does Martin Heidegger say often happens w/ tools as they are used? - Ans:✔✔--They become

invisible b/c the user's focus is on the task at hand



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-They are noticed when they don't function as designed


What is meant by Don Ihde's term "multi-usability"? - Ans:✔✔-An artifact can be used in different ways

based on each user's intentions.


Bruno Latour's "script" of a thing - Ans:✔✔-The behaviors that the artifact invites or inhibits its user to

perform


Don Ihde's "technological intentionality" - Ans:✔✔-Technology "shades" how we see the world,

emphasizing some things at the expense of others.


Technological Optimist - Ans:✔✔-"on the whole, technology is for the better"


Technological Pessimist - Ans:✔✔-"on the whole, technology is for the worst"


Technological Determinism - Ans:✔✔-Technology precedes its own logic; we can't do anything to stop its

progress


Critical Approach to Technology - Ans:✔✔-A check on the Enlightenment spirit; analogous to the food

critic


Artifact - Ans:✔✔-Any object intentionally created by humans


Common Sense View - Ans:✔✔--Can't blame the artifact for a wrongdoing


-Humans made objects as mere tools/neutral means to an end

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-Objects have no moral properties


-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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