Abstract
Lessening the Burden of Individualized Responsibility in the Socio-Technical World
Highlights
Extended AbstractLessening the Burden of Individualized Responsibility in the Socio-technical World. Contemporary practices of knowing take place in increasingly complex, distributed and dynamic socio-technical environments
Consider for example the case of personal information management in dynamic socio-technical environments
Knowers are presented with information about the services or devices they use via Terms of Service or an End User License Agreement
Summary
Lessening the Burden of Individualized Responsibility in the Socio-technical World. Contemporary practices of knowing take place in increasingly complex, distributed and dynamic socio-technical environments. To the introduction of informed consent in the realm of medicine, the availability of detailed information regarding the terms of service can be seen as a form of responsibility shedding rather than as a form of user/client empowerment. Given this situation, what can be done to enable and support epistemically responsible behavior and to distribute the burden of responsibility fairly?
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