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The Metaverse: Andrew McStay’s Responses to Cody Turner 虚拟世界:Andrew McStay对Cody Turner的回应

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00676-x

Andrew McStay

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Conceptual Engineering and Philosophy of Technology: Amelioration or Adaptation? 概念工程与技术哲学:改进还是适应?

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00670-3

Jeroen Hopster, Guido Löhr

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Technology and Civic Virtue 科技与公民美德

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w

Wessel Reijers

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Reply to Tom Sterkenburg’s Commentary 回复Tom Sterkenburg的评论

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00674-z

David S. Watson

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Balancing Caution and the Need for Change: The General Contextual Integrity Approach 平衡谨慎和改变的需要:一般的上下文完整性方法

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00671-2

Elizabeth O’Neill

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The Metaverse: Virtual Metaphysics, Virtual Governance, and Virtual Abundance 虚拟世界:虚拟形而上学、虚拟治理和虚拟富足

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00666-z

Cody Turner

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Can E-Sport Gamers Permissibly Engage with Off-Limits Virtual Wrongdoings? 电子竞技游戏玩家是否可以参与虚拟游戏中的不法行为?

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00667-y

Thomas Montefiore, Paul Formosa

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What Does it Mean to Mimic Nature? A Typology for Biomimetic Design 模仿自然意味着什么?仿生设计的类型学

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00665-0

Alessio Gerola, Zoë Robaey, Vincent Blok

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Making Trust Safe for AI? Non-agential Trust as a Conceptual Engineering Problem 让信任对人工智能更安全?非代理信任作为一个概念工程问题

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00664-1

Juri Viehoff

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Commentary on David Watson, “On the Philosophy of Unsupervised Learning,” Philosophy & Technology 评大卫·沃森，《论无监督学习的哲学》，哲学&;技术

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-023-00663-2

Tom F. Sterkenburg

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