Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 495. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2022-01-26 08:22:27+00:00 From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> Subject: what kinds of ethics? What kinds of philosophical ethics are actively pursued in digital humanities currently or are waiting to be noticed and developed? There are surely ethical aspects of how machines are applied, the effects they have and so on. My interest, however, is specifically in ethics whose ways, procedures and practices can be operationalised. I suppose an obvious answer is at the crossover of ethics into therapeutic practices, developed e.g. in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. A good example is Donald Robertson's The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2010) and Albert Ellis and Windy Dryden, The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (2nd edn, 1997). Neither of these even notice the potential relation between an ethical programme and a program, as it were. Where in this area does a philosophically and therapeutically respectable potential for computational work lie? How must we regard the relation betwen human and machine for it to be so? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php