Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice

2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-75944-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of utopianism, we must acknowledge their potential to exceed the individualist vs. collectivist dichotomy ascribed to traditional utopias. The author argues, with reference to Rawls’ idea of the basic structure that technological utopias challenge our understanding of the scope and location of justice and, thereby, advance the idea of justice. The book critically reviews the most recent literature in political philosophy, where utopias are understood as ideal theories of justice and sides with recent contributions to Utopian Studies, where utopias’ potential to estrange from the present and galvanize action are underscored.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sand, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Why utopia instead of what utopia.- Chapter 2. Perfectionism, stagnation and transcendental theorizing.- Chapter 3. Technological anti-anti-utopianism.- Chapter 4. How to and where to justice.- Chapter 5. Justice in technological utopia.- Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Sand is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft and a Board Member of the Delft Young Academy. In 2020, he was a member of the NIAS-Lorentz theme group on “Accountable and Explainable Medical AI” at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Before, he undertook a two-year project on the topic “Moral Luck in Science and Innovation” as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie-Fellow. Martin obtained his PhD in 2018 with a thesis on “Futures, Visions, and Responsibility-An Ethics of Innovation,” which was completed at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the , co-editor of the book series and an editorial board member of the journal . His work received several prizes and fellowships.