Synthetic friends : a philosophy of human-machine friendship.
Kempt, Hendrik.
2022
QA76.9.H85
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Title Synthetic friends : a philosophy of human-machine friendship.
Author Kempt, Hendrik.
ISBN 9783031136313 (electronic bk.)
3031136314 (electronic bk.)
3031136306
9783031136306
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13631-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-13631-3 doi
Call Number QA76.9.H85
Dewey Decimal Classification 004.01/9
Summary Friendship is an important human good. Most (though perhaps not all) humans crave it. Why does it matter so much? What brave new world of friendship awaits us with the advent of machines that are able to mimic human-like behaviours and relationship styles? Hendrik Kempts book takes a deep dive into these topics and rewards the reader with a rich and philosophically nuanced analysis of the possibility of friendship with technology. Anyone interested in the future of friendship should read this book. - John Danaher, Lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway, Ireland This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way. Depending on our concept of friendship, we may be inclined to answer differently. Since social technology has made new forms of friendships possible between people across the globe, the author argues that the philosophical concept of friendship, forged thousands of years ago, should be re-examined. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that reflects the unique relationship we can build with machines as our synthetic friends. Hendrik Kempt is Research Associate at the Applied Ethics Group at RWTH Aachen, Germany. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and Brown University, USA. He is editor of RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy (2020) and author of "Chatbots and the Domestication of AI" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) as well as several articles on the topic of human-machine interaction.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 - Why even?.-Chapter 3 - Critical Perspectives
Chapter 4 - Social Philosophy of Technology
Chapter 5 - Concepts and Theories of Friendship
Chapter 6 - Digital Hermits
Chapter 7 - Synthetic Friends
Chapter 8 - Social Integration
Chapter 9 Criticism
Chapter 10 - Almost a conclusion.

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