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Digital Technologies and Human Decision-Making

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Technology increasingly shapes the reality we live in as well as the boundaries of moral agency, so generating the question of what the properly “human” side of decision-making is. At the same time, technology has a pervasive impact on many dimensions of decision-making, which is increasingly automatized, supported by or delegated to AI and algorithms. Both aspects have been intensively investigated in isolation. However, to date little effort has been made to explore their connections -- i.e., to investigate the ways in which digital technologies foster or hinder decision-making, and to examine whether AI and algorithms affect the pre-conditions of our choices and moral agency. The aim of this special issue is to contribute to filling these research gaps, bringing together philosophers and AI experts to analyze the interplay between digital technologies and human decision-making.

Editors

  • Mario De Caro, Mario.decaro@tufts.edu Mario De Caro, Mario.decaro@tufts.edu , 

    Mario De Caro, Mario.decaro@tufts.edu

    Mario De Caro is Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre and regularly a Visiting Professor at Tufts. Formerly Visiting Scholar at MIT and Fulbright Fellow at Harvard, he is president of the Italian Association of Moral Philosophy, associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, and Hilary Putnam's literary executor. He edited Naturalism in Question (Harvard), Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia), Practical Wisdom (Routledge), Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism (Routledge), and three volumes of Hilary Putnam's essays (Harvard). His Liberal Naturalism (Harvard) and Hilary Putnam (Polity) are forthcoming.

  • Sofia Bonicalzi, sofia.bonicalzi@uniroma3.it Sofia Bonicalzi, sofia.bonicalzi@uniroma3.it  &

    Sofia Bonicalzi, sofia.bonicalzi@uniroma3.it

    Sofia Bonicalzi is Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University. She is also affiliated with the Cognition, Value and Behavior research group at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (Action and Body Group), UCL, at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and at the Chair of Philosophy of Mind, Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion, LMU.

  • Benedetta Giovanola, benedetta.giovanola@unimc.it Benedetta Giovanola, benedetta.giovanola@unimc.it

    Benedetta Giovanola, benedetta.giovanola@unimc.it

    Benedetta Giovanola holds the Jean Monnet Chair Ethics for inclusive digital Europe and is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Macerata. She is a visiting prof. at Tufts University and previously held visiting positions at the UIBE, Beijing, KU Leuven and Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the vice-president of the Italian Association of Moral Philosophy and the Director of Lab on Cybersecurity in the framework of the Interuniversity National Consortium for Informatics in Italy. Her research interests are in social justice and digital ethics, focusing on issues of fairness and inclusion in AI.

Articles (10 in this collection)