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tech and ethics reading collection

Tech and ethics reading collection

A list of books, essays, papers, blog posts, tweets, etc. on tech and ethics that I have either read and found useful or plan to read because I think they might be useful. I’m not especially interested in ethics that doesn’t take power or structure into account, so most of the standard texts one would read in a course on ethics aren’t represented on my list.

(My) starting point

Not strictly about either ethics or tech, but Claire Dederer’s What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men? verbalizes something that is wound up in how I think about ethics, and what I hear when people talk about ethics:

This, I think, is what happens to so many of us when we consider the work of the monster geniuses—we tell ourselves we’re having ethical thoughts when really what we’re having is moral feelings.

Ideal theory

Dr. Robin James recommends Charles Mills’ Ideal Theory as Ideology. If you’re a fan of The Good Place, read Dr. James on its political philosophy.

Ethics as aesthetics

Rancière’s Politics of Aesthetics

Living with ethics

Tech and ethics

Other reading lists

Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont, bibliography on ethics of care

Deep background

Dr. Ada Palmer has written a good blog series on Machiavelli . Her related post about intellectual technology is also worth reading and thinking about in the context of tech ethics. Dr. Palmer is an intellectual historian, which is a discipline that I find interesting but that doesn’t necessarily fit with how I think about the world.

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