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Conceptualising conceptual resilience. A comparative approach. 概念化概念弹性。比较的方法。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-28 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-026-01045-0

Samuela Marchiori, Joseph Sta Maria

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The Many Faces of Indeterminacy in Interactive Deadbots. 互动式Deadbots的诸多不确定性

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-026-01089-2

Atay Kozlovski, Edina Harbinja, Roel Dobbe

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The Formula of Humanity and AI Use. 人性的公式和人工智能的使用。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-026-01100-w

Martin Sticker

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Does Accountability Require Agency? Comment on Responsibility and Accountability in the Algorithmic Society. 问责制需要机构吗？论算法社会中的责任与问责。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-12 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-01014-z

Tillmann Vierkant

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Privacy and Human-AI Relationships. 隐私和人类与人工智能的关系。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-10-18 eCollection Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00978-2

Christopher Register, Maryam Ali Khan, Alberto Giubilini, Brian David Earp, Julian Savulescu

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Vertical Technologies and Relational Values: Rethinking Ethics of Technology in an Age of Extractivism. 垂直技术与相关价值：对采掘主义时代技术伦理的再思考。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00962-w

Jeroen Hopster

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Human Life as Terra Nullius: Socially Blind Engineering in Facebook's Foundational Technologies. 《作为无主之地的人类生活：Facebook基础技术中的社会盲工程》

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00971-9

João C Magalhães, Nick Couldry

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What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience. 一百万年后人类会发生什么？吉尔伯特·霍托伊斯和技术科学的时间性。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00887-4

Massimiliano Simons

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Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains. 人工智能能否依赖系统性的真理？规范领域建模的挑战。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00864-x

Matthieu Queloz

{"title":"Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains.","authors":"Matthieu Queloz","doi":"10.1007/s13347-025-00864-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13347-025-00864-x","url":null,"abstract":"A key assumption fuelling optimism about the progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) in accurately and comprehensively modelling the world is that the truth is systematic: true statements about the world form a whole that is not just consistent, in that it contains no contradictions, but coherent, in that the truths are inferentially interlinked. This holds out the prospect that LLMs might in principle rely on that systematicity to fill in gaps and correct inaccuracies in the training data: consistency and coherence promise to facilitate progress towards comprehensiveness in an LLM's representation of the world. However, philosophers have identified compelling reasons to doubt that the truth is systematic across all domains of thought, arguing that in normative domains, in particular, the truth is largely asystematic. I argue that insofar as the truth in normative domains is asystematic, this renders it correspondingly harder for LLMs to make progress, because they cannot then leverage the systematicity of truth. And the less LLMs can rely on the systematicity of truth, the less we can rely on them to do our practical deliberation for us, because the very asystematicity of normative domains requires human agency to play a greater role in practical thought.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"38 1","pages":"34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11906541/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143650431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Three Social Dimensions of Chatbot Technology. 聊天机器人技术的三个社会维度。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00826-9

Mauricio Figueroa-Torres

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