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A striking feature of Thomas Hobbes's account of political obligation is his discussion of the Fool, who thinks it reasonable to adopt a policy of selective, self-interested covenant breaking. Surprisingly, scholars have paid little attention to the potential of a psychological defense of Hobbes's controversial claim that the Fool behaves irrationally. In this paper, I first describe Hobbes's account of the Fool and argue that the kind of Fool most worth considering is the covert, long-term Fool. Then I advance and critically assess two psychological arguments according to which the Fool's policy of self-interested covenant breaking is prudentially irrational. The first argument holds that, taken together, the deep guilt from early-stage covenant breaking, the cumulative guilt from continued covenant breaking, and the high statistical risk of detection during high-volume covenant breaking (which increases greatly when one is desensitized to guilt) render the Fool's policy irrational. The second argument holds that the Fool's policy is irrational because it puts him at risk of adopting a psychologically intolerable view of his fellow covenanters and, specifically, the extent to which they can be trusted.

Surprisingly few articles have focused on Aquinas's particular conception of necessary beings in the Third Way, and many scholars have espoused inaccurate or incomplete views of that conception. My aim in this paper is both to offer a corrective to some of those views and, more importantly, to provide compelling answers to the following two questions about the necessary beings of the Third Way. First, how exactly does Aquinas conceive of these necessary beings? Second, what does Aquinas seek to accomplish (and what does he accomplish) in the third stage of the Third Way? In answering these questions, I challenge prominent contemporary understandings of the necessary beings of the Third Way.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Perspectives on Technology and Its Value -- 1 The Definition of Technology -- 2 Value-Free Technology? -- 3 The Values Built into Technologies -- 4 Technological Determinism: What It Is and Why It Matters -- 5 Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology -- 6 Postphenomenology and Ethics -- 7 Technology and the Extended Mind -- PART II: Technology and the Good Life -- 8 Ethical Theory and Technology -- 9 Disagreeing Well about Technology -- 10 Technology and the Virtue of Honesty -- 11 Confucian Ethics of Technology -- 12 Utilitarianism and Happy-People-Pills -- 13 Marxist Perspectives on Technology -- 14 Technology and Trust - A Kantian Approach -- PART III: Computer and Information Technology -- 15 Values in Artificial Intelligence Systems -- 16 A Kantian Course Correction for Machine Ethics -- 17 Ethical Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Mental Health: Psychotherapy Chatbots -- 18 Privacy, Security, and Surveillance -- 19 Being-in-the-Screen: Phenomenological Reflections on Contemporary Screenhood -- 20 Race, Gender, and Visibility on Social Media -- 21 Fake News: There's No App for Truthfulness -- PART IV: Technology in Business -- 22 Adam Smith on the Dangers of the Digital World -- 23 Social Media Firms, Echo Chambers, and the Good Life -- 24 Data Science and Business Ethics -- 25 Technology Firms and the Business Case for Diversity -- 26 Big Tech & -- Political Equality -- 27 AI and the Law: Can the Legal System Help Us Maximize Paperclips and Minimize Deaths? -- PART V: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Enhancement -- 28 Biomedical Technology and the Ethics of Enhancement -- 29 Genetic Enhancement: Just Say Yes -- 30 Feminism and the Ethics of Reprogenetic Technologies.

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently organized into five parts: Perspectives on Technology and its Value Technology and the Good Life Computer and Information Technology Technology and Business Biotechnologies and the Ethics of Enhancement A hallmark of the volume is multidisciplinary contributions both (1) in "analytic" and "continental" philosophies and (2) across several hot-button topics of interest to students, including the ethics of autonomous vehicles, psychotherapeutic phone apps, and bio-enhancement of cognition and in sports. The volume editors, both teachers of technology ethics, have compiled a set of original and timely chapters that will advance scholarly debate and stimulate fascinating and lively classroom discussion. Downloadable eResources (available from www.routledge.com/9781032038704) provide a glossary of all relevant terms, sample classroom activities/discussion questions relevant for chapters, and links to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries and other relevant online materials. Key Features: Examines the most pivotal ethical questions around our use of technology, equipping readers to better understand technology's promises and perils. Explores throughout a central tension raised by technological progress: maintaining social stability vs. pursuing dynamic social improvements. Provides ample coverage of the pressing issues of free speech and productive online discourse.

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently organized into five parts: Perspectives on Technology and its Value Technology and the Good Life Computer and Information Technology Technology and Business Biotechnologies and the Ethics of Enhancement A hallmark of the volume is multidisciplinary contributions both (1) in "analytic" and "continental" philosophies and (2) across several hot-button topics of interest to students, including the ethics of autonomous vehicles, psychotherapeutic phone apps, and bio-enhancement of cognition and in sports. The volume editors, both teachers of technology ethics, have compiled a set of original and timely chapters that will advance scholarly debate and stimulate fascinating and lively classroom discussion. Downloadable eResources (available from www.routledge.com/9781032038704) provide a glossary of all relevant terms, sample classroom activities/discussion questions relevant for chapters, and links to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries and other relevant online materials. Key Features: Examines the most pivotal ethical questions around our use of technology, equipping readers to better understand technology's promises and perils. Explores throughout a central tension raised by technological progress: maintaining social stability vs. pursuing dynamic social improvements. Provides ample coverage of the pressing issues of free speech and productive online discourse.