Rethinking Responsibility

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-162221-2

Rethinking Responsibility

Edited by Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt, Ferdinando G. Menga and Christian Schlenker

[Verantwortung neu denken.]

2023. VIII, 244 pages.

Perspektiven der Ethik (PE) 20

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-162221-2

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This volume fills a lacuna in the literature on responsibility by establishing a phenomenological perspective in a constructive conversation with both traditional concepts of responsibility and its presuppositions as well as the current societal challenges facing the concept of responsibility.

This volume examines the concept of responsibility amidst current societal challenges that require its rethinking. Assigning responsibility to an agent proves problematic when technological or social structures have become too complex. Concepts of responsibility which retrospectively name a responsible party often fail due to this complexity, diffusing responsibility to a minimum that can no longer be perceived. The contributions explore the foundations of responsibility in order to engage constructively with contemporary issues. The first part approaches conceptual challenges through examples concerning artificial intelligence, while the second discusses the anthropological presuppositions of responsibility and connects them with the broader continental philosophical tradition. The third part deals with concepts of how intergenerational responsibility can be included both conceptually and legally.

Table of contents:

I. Advanced Technologies
Amanda Lagerkvist: AI as Existential Media: Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (2021) - Christian Schwarke: Wie künstlich ist die KI? Autonome Technologien und die Konstruktion von Verantwortung - Christian Schlenker: Macht und künstliche Intelligenz: Dimensionen der Macht und der Begriff der Verantwortung

II. Anthropology
Tijana Petkovic: In What Transformation Do We Believe? - Jure Zovko: Ethics of Responsibility for the Era of Globalisation? - Ingolf U. Dalferth: Endlichkeit und Verantwortung: Menschsein im Zeitalter der Technologie

III. Intergenerational Responsibility
Rachel Muers: Future Generations as Horizon of Responsible Action in the Climate Crisis - Lisa Guenther: Intergenerational Responsibility for Settler Colonial Violence - Friedhelm Meier: Standpunktbezogene Zukunftsverantwortung: Zukunftsethik jenseits von neutraler Technikfolgenabschätzung und akademisch-konzeptionellen Metadiskursen - Ferdinando G. Menga: Absences that Matter: Phenomenological Insights on (the Predicaments of) Intergenerational Responsibility - Hans Lindahl: Place-Holding the Future: Legal Ordering and Intergenerational Justice for More-Than-Human Collectives

Authors/Editors

Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt Born 1956; Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen.

Ferdinando G. Menga Geboren 1974; Dr. Phil., Dr. iur. et pol. rer. und habilitiert nach dem italienischen Hochschulsystem als "associate professor" in den Bereichen: Moral-, Rechts-, politische und theoretische Philosophie; zur Zeit Post-Doc Forscher am Institut für Ethik, Ev.-Theologische Fakultät, Universität Tübingen.

Christian Schlenker Geboren 1991; 2011-18 Studium der Ev. Theologie, Mathematik und griechischen Philologie an der Universität Tübingen und der Tufts University, Medford MA; 2018-24 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Ethik an der Ev.-Theol. Fakultät der Universität Tübingen.