Artificial Dispositions

We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts? This collection investigates artificial dispositions : what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. It is divided into four parts covering the following interconnected themes: (i) Artificial and Natural Dispositions, (ii) Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions, (iii) Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions, and (iv) Artificial Moral Dispositions. This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.>

Préface
Explores the metaphysical and ethical underpinnings of artificial dispositions and systems.

Auteur
William A. Bauer is Associate Teaching Professor at North Carolina State University, USA. Anna Marmodoro is Full Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK and Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK.

Résumé
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess. How do these dispositions, found in automation, computation, and artificial intelligence applications, differ metaphysically from their natural counterparts? This collection investigates artificial dispositions: what they are, the roles they play in artificial systems, and how they impact our understanding of the nature of reality, the structure of minds, and the ethics of emerging technologies. It is divided into four parts covering the following interconnected themes: (i) Artificial and Natural Dispositions, (ii) Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions, (iii) Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions, and (iv) Artificial Moral Dispositions. This is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking resource for any student or scholar of philosophy of science, contemporary metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of technology.

Contenu
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction, William A. Bauer (**North Carolina State University, USA) and Anna Marmodoro (University of Oxford, UK) Part I. Artificial and Natural Dispositions 1. Is There a Metaphysically Robust Distinction between Artificial and Natural Dispositions?, Joaquim Giannotti (Universidad de Chile, Chile) 2. The Metaphysics of Artificial Dispositions, Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) 3. Classification and Artificial Dispositions, Andrew McFarland (*LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA) *Part II. Artificial Systems and Their Dispositions 4. Artificial Systems as Disposition Bearers, Lauren Ashwell (Bates College, USA) 5. Harnessing Power, Neil E. Williams (University at Buffalo, USA) Part III. Agency, Mind, and Artificial Dispositions 6. What Superheroes Can Teach Us About the Metaphysics of Human Enhancement Technology, Sungho Choi (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) 7. Intelligent Capacities in Artificial Systems, Atoosa Kasirzadeh (*University of Edinburgh and The Alan Turing Institute, UK) and *Victoria McGeer (Australian National University, Australia, and Princeton University, USA) 8. Powerful Qualities, Phenomenal Properties and AI, Ashley Coates (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) Part IV. Artificial Moral Dispositions 9. The Very Notion of Artificial Moral Agency. The Case and Place of Artificial Moral Dispositions, Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria and the South African Centre for AI Research*, South Africa) 10. Is AI Capable of Aristotelian Full Moral Virtue? The Rational Power of *phronesis, Machine Learning, and the Metaphysics of Regularity, Ruth Porter Groff (*Saint Louis University, USA) and John Symons (University of Kansas, USA) 11. Artificial Moral Dispositions in Humans and Computers, *Thomas Powers (University of Delaware, USA) Notes on Contributors Index