Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies

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.

• 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 Valorization 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