Description
Cybernetics is notable for its recognition of ethical considerations within epistemological processes. Our claims to knowledge are intertwined with the purposes that we pursue and with our relationships with others and the world. In this paper I locate this argument within ethical discourse itself, applying the formulations of radical constructivism given by cyberneticians such as Ernst von Glasersfeld, Ranulph Glanville and Heinz von Foerster to the epistemological questions that arise within meta-ethics, such as between ethical realism and subjectivism. In doing so I differentiate cybernetics from seemingly similar positions where responsibility is taken as an ultimate value (e.g. existentialism) or where ethical norms are formulated through society and culture. In this way, cybernetics may help formulate ethical considerations nested within ethical discourse itself.| Period | 22 Sept 2018 |
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| Event title | The Cybernetics Society 50th Anniversary Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | London, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
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Wicked problems in design and ethics
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Applying ethics to itself: Recursive ethical questioning in architecture and second-order cybernetics
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Cybernetics, virtue ethics and design
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A Recursive Ethics for Systemic Complexity
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Wicked Problems in Design and Ethics
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The Cybernetics Society (External organisation)
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