Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy
Author: Timothy Aylsworth
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 3031456386
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The Attention Economy
Author: Claudio Celis Bueno
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-11-16
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1783488255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence increasingly valuable commodity. To what degree is the attention economy a specific form of capitalist production? How does the attention economy differ from the industrial mode of production in which Marx developed his critique of capitalism? How can Marx’s theory be used today despite the historical differences that separate industrial from post-industrial capitalism? The Attention Economy argues that human attention is a new form of labour that can only be understood through a systematic reinterpretation of Marx. It argues that the attention economy belongs to a general shift in capitalism in which subjectivity itself becomes the territory of production and exploitation of value as well as the territory of the reproduction of capitalist power relations.
Kantian Ethics and Economics
Author: Mark White
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-05-17
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0804768943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book integrates the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—particularly the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—into economic theory, enriching models of individual choice and policymaking, while contributing to our understanding of how the economic individual fits into society.
Ethics of the Attention Economy
Author: Vikram R. Bhargava
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial media companies commonly design their platforms in a way that renders them addictive. Some governments have declared internet addiction a major public health concern, and the World Health Organization has characterized excessive internet use as a growing problem. Our article shows why scholars, policy makers, and the managers of social media companies should treat social media addiction as a serious moral problem. While the benefits of social media are not negligible, we argue that social media addiction raises unique ethical concerns not raised by other, more familiar addictive products, such as alcohol and cigarettes. In particular, we argue that addicting users to social media is impermissible because it unjustifiably harms users in a way that is both demeaning and objectionably exploitative. Importantly, the attention-economy business model of social media companies strongly incentivizes them to perpetrate this wrongdoing.
Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant
Author: Maria Borges
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-18
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1350078387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Though Kant never used the word 'emotion' in his writings, it is of vital significance to understanding his philosophy. This book offers a captivating argument for reading Kant considering the importance of emotion, taking into account its many manifestations in his work including affect and passion. Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant explores how, in Kant's world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. On the one hand, there are positive moral emotions that can and should be cultivated. On the other hand, affects and passions are considered illnesses of the mind, in that they lead to the weakness of the will, in the case of affects, and evil, in the case of passions. Seeing the role of these emotions enriches our understanding of Kant's moral theory. Exploring the full range of negative and positive emotions in Kant's work, including anger, compassion and sympathy, as well as moral feeling, Borges shows how Kant's theory of emotion includes both physiological and cognitive aspects. This is an important new contribution to Kant Studies, suitable for students of Kant, ethics, and moral psychology.
Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective
Author: Norman E. Bowie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 110712090X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies the latest studies on Kantian ethics to show how a business can maintain economic success and moral integrity.
Stand Out of Our Light
Author: James Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 110845299X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that human freedom is threatened by systems of intelligent persuasion developed by tech giants who compete for our time and attention. This title is also available as Open Access.
Ethics of the Real
Author: Alenka Zupančič
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781859847244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-establishment of fear. In attempting to interpret sucha a revcolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary—someone who can help us with our own ethical dilemmas—many Kantian scholars have glossed over its apparent paradoxes and impossible claims. This book is concerned with doing exactly the opposite. Kant, thank God, is not our contemporary; he stands against the grain of our times. Lacan on the face of it appears to be the very antithesis of Kant—the wild theorist of psychoanalysis compared to the sober Enlightenment figure. His concept of the Real, however, provides perhaps the most useful backdrop to this new interpretation of Kantian ethics. Constantly juxtaposing her readings of the two philosophers, Alenka Zupancic summons up and 'ethics of the Real', and clears the ground for a radical restoration of the disruptive element in ethics.
An Introduction to Kant's Ethics
Author: Roger J. Sullivan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-07-29
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521467698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant's ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political philosophy, thus allowing the reader to appreciate why Kant argued that the legal structure for any civil society must have a moral basis. This approach also explains why Kant thought that our basic moral norms should serve as laws of conduct for everyone. The volume also includes a detailed commentary on Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant's most widely studied work of moral philosophy.
How We Cooperate
Author: John E. Roemer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0300233337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new theory of how and why we cooperate, drawing from economics, political theory, and philosophy to challenge the conventional wisdom of game theory Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for cooperation leave much to be desired. Unlike competing players, cooperating players take those actions that they would like others to take--which Roemer calls "Kantian optimization." Through rigorous reasoning and modeling, Roemer demonstrates a simpler theory of cooperative behavior than the standard model provides.
