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Technology and The Discreet Cough

September 23, 2019 by Richard Veryard

In fiction, servants cough discreetly to make people aware of their presence. (I’m thinking of P.G. Wodehouse, but there must be other examples.)Technological devices sometimes call our attention to themselves for various reasons. John Ehrenfeld calls …

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The Nudge as a Speech Act

September 30, 2019May 19, 2019 by Richard Veryard

As I said in my previous post, I don’t think we can start to think about the ethics of technology nudges without recognizing the complexity of real-world nudges. So in this post, I shall look at how nudges are communicated in the real world, before con…

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On the Ethics of Technologically Mediated Nudge

April 25, 2020May 17, 2019 by Richard Veryard

Before we can discuss the ethics of technologically mediated nudge, we need to recognize that many of the ethical issues are the same whether the nudge is delivered by a human or a robot. So let me start by trying to identify different categories of nu…

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Practical Ethics

May 19, 2019June 13, 2018 by Richard Veryard

A lot of ethical judgements appear to be binary ones. Good versus bad. Acceptable versus unacceptable. Angels versus Devils.Where questions of ethics reach the public sphere, it is common for people to take strong positions for or against. For example,…

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