1st Edition
Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies
This volume explores urgent questions surrounding the bidirectional relationship between feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. It underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at the same time accentuates how emerging technologies can uniquely impact the shape of future feminist critique and intervention.
While feminist philosophers have attended to problems posed by a few specific technologies that emerged in the previous century—especially reproductive technologies—broader philosophical questions concerning the challenges various new technologies present to feminism have yet to receive the sustained, critical attention they deserve. Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies responds to this problem. It is divided into two sections. Section 1 provides theoretical considerations about the links between feminist philosophy and philosophy of technology (broadly construed) by developing—against the background of emerging technologies—methodological approaches and guidance for bringing those two fields of philosophical research together. Section 2 is dedicated to analyses of specific emerging technologies and user trends, their relation to extant structures of oppression, and to bringing to the fore various ways in which a feminist philosophy of technology can impact the design of current and future technologies.
Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies is an excellent resource for scholars and advanced students working in feminist philosophy, philosophy of technology, ethics, political philosophy, feminist theory, gender and cultural studies, and science and technology studies.
Editors’ Introduction Mary L. Edwards and S. Orestis Palermos
Part 1: Feminist Philosophy in the Light of Emerging Technologies
1. Leaking Milk and Beating Hearts: Technological Immanence and the Maternal Body EL Putnam
2. Feminism and Enhancement Walter Veit and Heather Browning
3. Gender, Race, and Moral Enhancement Emma C. Gordon
4. The Dangerous Liaison between Rape Culture and Information Technologies: Reality, Virtuality, and Responsibility in Cyber-rapes Francesco Striano
5. Social Media, Digital Technologies, and the Valorisation of Lack of Consent Kelly Oliver
6. Two Dilemmas for Value-Sensitive Technological Design Mona Simion
7. The Utopian Dimension of New Technologies: A Feminist Technophilosophical Approach to Sex and Gender Valeria Venditti
Part 2: Emerging Technologies in the Light of Feminist Philosophy
8. The Person behind the Digit: Objectification and Self-Objectification Online S. Orestis Palermos
9. Technologies of Women’s (Sexual) Humiliation Dianna Taylor
10. When Sexual and Information Privacy Converge: The Case of Digital Dick Pics Martha McCaughey and Jill Cermele
11. Understanding Incels as a Group Mary L. Edwards
12. Influencing Corporealities: Social Media and Its Impact on Gender Transition Gen Eickers
13. “Computer Says No”: Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, and Epistemic Injustice Joel Walmsley
Biography
Mary L. Edwards is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. She is the author of Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others (2023) and her research interests include existential psychoanalysis, the phenomenology of social emotions, psychological oppression, and electronically mediated relations. She teaches modules on “Feminist Philosophy,” “The Social Imagination,” and “Other People.”
S. Orestis Palermos is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina. Orestis specialises in epistemology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, as well as in issues at the intersection of these fields. He is also a co-editor of Extended Epistemology and Socially Extended Epistemology.
