Episode #21 – Mark Coeckelbergh on Robots and the Tragedy of Automation

Author(s)

John Danaher, Mark Coeckelbergh

Abstract

In this episode I talk to Mark Coeckelbergh. Mark is a Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He also has an affiliation as Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK. We talk about robots and philosophy (robophilosophy), focusing on two topics in particular. First, the rise of the carebots and the mechanisation of society, and second, Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and its application to our relationship with technology.

Organisation(s)

Department of Philosophy

Publication date

04-2017

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

603122 Philosophy of technology

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/1c1c9d7e-3319-4ab7-b62d-0a1a9406282e