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Technology and the Virtues: a Response to My Critics

Technology and the Virtues: a Response to My Critics Philos. Technol. (2018) 31:305–316 DOI 10.1007/s13347-017-0289-8 BOOK REVIEW Shannon Vallor Received: 2 August 2017 /Accepted: 27 September 2017 /Published online: 7 October 2017 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 The thoughtful and highly constructive commentaries from Don Howard, Emily McRae and Howard Curzer on my book, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, are a pleasure to grapple with. I sincerely thank Diane P. Michelfelder for organizing their publication, and for proposing and moder- ating the special author-meets-critics session at the American Philosophical Associa- tion’s Central Division meeting in Kansas City, Missouri in March 2017, at which these commentaries were originally given. I also wish to thank all three contributors for their careful critical insights, which I will examine in turn and then offer some overarching thoughts and questions in reply. I will begin with Emily McRae’s remarks because they have a very specific focus from which the broader critical discussion can expand, namely the role that Buddhist virtue ethics plays in what she sees as a primarily neo-Aristotelian philosophical project. I will then offer a response to Howard Curzer’s remarks which are somewhat broader-ranging in their critical scope, and then finally to Don Howard’sremarks, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy & Technology Springer Journals

Technology and the Virtues: a Response to My Critics

Philosophy & Technology , Volume 31 (2) – Oct 7, 2017

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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Philosophy; Philosophy of Technology
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2210-5433
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Philos. Technol. (2018) 31:305–316 DOI 10.1007/s13347-017-0289-8 BOOK REVIEW Shannon Vallor Received: 2 August 2017 /Accepted: 27 September 2017 /Published online: 7 October 2017 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 The thoughtful and highly constructive commentaries from Don Howard, Emily McRae and Howard Curzer on my book, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, are a pleasure to grapple with. I sincerely thank Diane P. Michelfelder for organizing their publication, and for proposing and moder- ating the special author-meets-critics session at the American Philosophical Associa- tion’s Central Division meeting in Kansas City, Missouri in March 2017, at which these commentaries were originally given. I also wish to thank all three contributors for their careful critical insights, which I will examine in turn and then offer some overarching thoughts and questions in reply. I will begin with Emily McRae’s remarks because they have a very specific focus from which the broader critical discussion can expand, namely the role that Buddhist virtue ethics plays in what she sees as a primarily neo-Aristotelian philosophical project. I will then offer a response to Howard Curzer’s remarks which are somewhat broader-ranging in their critical scope, and then finally to Don Howard’sremarks,

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Published: Oct 7, 2017

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