Digital Death and Immortality. This project will create a philosophically-informed ethical approach for managing the 'digital remains' of internet users who have died. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies make it possible to reuse and interact with these digital remains. This offers new ways of commemorating the dead and for managing grief. Yet these technologies also threaten to exploit the dead and to change our relationship to them in troubling ways. Expected outcomes of the project ....Digital Death and Immortality. This project will create a philosophically-informed ethical approach for managing the 'digital remains' of internet users who have died. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies make it possible to reuse and interact with these digital remains. This offers new ways of commemorating the dead and for managing grief. Yet these technologies also threaten to exploit the dead and to change our relationship to them in troubling ways. Expected outcomes of the project include guidance for the ethical use of these technologies and policy recommendations for regulating the reuse of digital remains. This will provide significant benefits by helping Australia to avoid the ethical dangers inherent in emerging technologies of 'digital reanimation.'Read moreRead less
Persuasive Force: The Role of Aesthetic Experience in Moral Persuasion. This project will make a significant contribution to the pressing contemporary topic of moral motivation. Because of its innovative approach to the problem of moral motivation this proposal will have an international impact on debates over moral conduct and raise the international profile of Australia in this field. In addition to its academic benefits for research training and our national research reputation, this proposal ....Persuasive Force: The Role of Aesthetic Experience in Moral Persuasion. This project will make a significant contribution to the pressing contemporary topic of moral motivation. Because of its innovative approach to the problem of moral motivation this proposal will have an international impact on debates over moral conduct and raise the international profile of Australia in this field. In addition to its academic benefits for research training and our national research reputation, this proposal has implications for the way social policy is devised. In particular, the reconsideration of the sources of moral action proposed here has important implications for understanding the dynamics involved in religious fundamentalism and political violence.Read moreRead less
Analytic and Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy. This project is of great significance to the international academic philosophical community, as there has been no sustained and coordinated treatment of the methodological differences between analytic and continental philosophers anywhere in the world. While both analytic and continental philosophers of Australia have a strong reputation that this project will further, by bringing international philosophers of both tradi ....Analytic and Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy. This project is of great significance to the international academic philosophical community, as there has been no sustained and coordinated treatment of the methodological differences between analytic and continental philosophers anywhere in the world. While both analytic and continental philosophers of Australia have a strong reputation that this project will further, by bringing international philosophers of both traditions to Australia, and staging at least two pluralist conferences on their respective methodologies, this research will assist in breaking down the oppositional thinking that subtly pervades the Australian philosophical community, and, in different ways, the humanities and social sciences at large.
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