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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457368103321

Titolo

Law, human agency and autonomic computing : the philosophy of law meets the philosophy of technology / / edited by Mireille Hildebrandt and Antoinette Rouvroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-43522-5

9786613435224

1-136-80767-5

0-203-82834-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HildebrandtM

RouvroyAntoinette

Disciplina

344/.095

Soggetti

Technology and law

Law - Philosophy

Liberty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a multifocal view of human agency in the era of autonomic computing / Mireille Hilderbrandt -- Smart : Amsterdam urinals and autonomic computing / Don Ihde -- Subject to technology on autonomic computing and human autonomy / Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Remote control : human autonomy in the age of computer-mediated agency / Jos de Mul & Bibi van den Berg -- Autonomy, delegation and responsibility : agents in autonomic computing environments / Roger Brownsword -- Rethinking human identity in the age of autonomic computing : the philosophical idea of the trace / Massimo Durante -- Autonomic computing, genomic data, and human agency : the case for embodiment / Hyo Yoon Kang -- Technology, virtuality and Utopia : governmentality in an age of autonomic computing / Antoinette Rouvroy -- Autonomic and autonomous "thinking" : preconditions for criminal accountability / Mireille Hildebrandt -- Technology and



accountability : autonomic computing and human agency / Jannis Kallinikos -- Of machines and men : the road to identity : scenes for a discussion / Stefano Rodot -- 'The BPI Nexus' : a philosophical echo to Stefano Rodotas of machines and men / Paul Mathias -- Epilogue : technological mediation, and human agency as recalcitrance / Antoinette Rouvroy.

Sommario/riassunto

Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-technical infrastructures it supports. The development of autonomic computing and ambient intelligence - self-governing systems - challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of human self-constitution and agency, with significant consequences for the theory and practice of constitutional self-government. Ideas of identity, subjectivity, agency, personhood, intentionality, and embodiment