Evan Selinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 985809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan Selinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan |
| FAMILY NAME | Selinger |
| SIGNATURE | SELINGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7298-9204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reality
Amazon’s Ring
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells allow users to easily see and talk with people in camera range over their phones, record and save camera footage to the cloud, and share videos of suspicious activity
Re-Engineering Humanity
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive…
The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy
Businesses are rushing to collect personal data to fuel surging demand. Data enthusiasts claim personal information that's obtained from the commercial internet, including mobile platforms, social networks, cloud computing, and connected devices, will unlock path-breaking innovation, including advanced data security. By contrast, regulators and activists contend that corporate data practices too often disempower consumers by creating privacy harm…
Confronting the Moral Dimensions of Technology Through Mediation Theory
Creating a taxonomic tool for technocracy and applying it to Silicon Valley
Action Schemes
Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness presents an influential account of why ‘choice architecture’ should be used to ‘nudge’ people into making better decisions than they would otherwise make. In this essay we: (1) explain the main concepts that Thaler and Sunstein rely upon to defend their project; (2) clarify the main conceptual problems that have arisen in discussions about nudges; (3…
Poverty tourism and the problem of consent
Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as ‘poverty tourism’. While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other practices will be more controversial. The purpose of this essay is to address mutually beneficial cases of poverty tourism and advance the following positions. F…
Sustainable Engineering Science for Resolving Wicked Problems
Poverty Tourism, Justice, and Policy
Should poverty tourism be subject, on moral grounds, to specific policy constraints? This article responds to the question by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. It argues that the complexity of the social relationships involved in the tours requires policy-relevant rese…
Ethics and Poverty Tours
Poorismorganized tours that bring predominantly middle and upper class people to impoverished regionsis growing in popularity, touted by its supporters as conscientious consumerism. Evan Selinger examines the arguments of poorisms advocates (it raises awareness of global suffering and provides needed funds to eliminate poverty) and of its detractors (both the intentions behind poorism and the consequences following from it can be morally problema…
Towards a reflexive framework for development
Does Microcredit “Empower”? Reflections on the Grameen Bank Debate
A graphic measure for game-theoretic robustness
Jagannath's Saligram
Bruno Latour has turned to Indian vernacular fiction to illustrate the limits of ideology critique. In examining the method of literary analysis that underlies his appropriation of postcolonial history and culture, we appeal to Edward Said's notion of "traveling theory" in order to discuss critically the aesthetic as well as political stakes of using the technology of the modern novel for the allegorical purposes that Latour has in mind. We argue…
Interactional expertise and embodiment
The Wonder of Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty and Epistemology Engines
Expertise and public ignorance
Recent sociological/philosophical treatments of expertise, best represented by the work of Steve Fuller, attempt to (1) reduce displays of expertise to sophistic exercises of discretionary power, and (2) refute the claim that because laypeople are epistemically inferior to experts, it is rational to defer to an expert's opinion rather than making up one's own mind. But upon inspection, Fuller fails to provide reasonable grounds for liberating lay…
Feyerabend's democratic critique of expertise
Paul Feyerabend is famous for presenting a scathing indictment of modern experts as a threat to democracy. While commentators have questioned the accuracy of his portrayal of experts, they have not assessed the accuracy of his depiction of laypeople. Although Feyerabend has political reasons for wanting to demythologize grandiose notions of expertise, his political project hinders clear thinking about the question by idealizing the alternative la…
Dreyfus on expertise
Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness presents an influential account of why ‘choice architecture’ should be used to ‘nudge’ people into making better decisions than they would otherwise make. In this essay we: (1) explain the main concepts that Thaler and Sunstein rely upon to defend their project; (2) clarify the main conceptual problems that have arisen in discussions about nudges; (3…
Creating a taxonomic tool for technocracy and applying it to Silicon Valley
Sustainable Engineering Science for Resolving Wicked Problems
Poverty tourism and the problem of consent
Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as ‘poverty tourism’. While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other practices will be more controversial. The purpose of this essay is to address mutually beneficial cases of poverty tourism and advance the following positions. F…
Merleau-Ponty and Epistemology Engines
Feyerabend's democratic critique of expertise
Paul Feyerabend is famous for presenting a scathing indictment of modern experts as a threat to democracy. While commentators have questioned the accuracy of his portrayal of experts, they have not assessed the accuracy of his depiction of laypeople. Although Feyerabend has political reasons for wanting to demythologize grandiose notions of expertise, his political project hinders clear thinking about the question by idealizing the alternative la…
Towards a reflexive framework for development
Interactional expertise and embodiment
Amazon’s Ring
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells allow users to easily see and talk with people in camera range over their phones, record and save camera footage to the cloud, and share videos of suspicious activity
Poverty Tourism, Justice, and Policy
Should poverty tourism be subject, on moral grounds, to specific policy constraints? This article responds to the question by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. It argues that the complexity of the social relationships involved in the tours requires policy-relevant rese…
A graphic measure for game-theoretic robustness
Expertise and public ignorance
Recent sociological/philosophical treatments of expertise, best represented by the work of Steve Fuller, attempt to (1) reduce displays of expertise to sophistic exercises of discretionary power, and (2) refute the claim that because laypeople are epistemically inferior to experts, it is rational to defer to an expert's opinion rather than making up one's own mind. But upon inspection, Fuller fails to provide reasonable grounds for liberating lay…
Does Microcredit “Empower”? Reflections on the Grameen Bank Debate
Jagannath's Saligram
Bruno Latour has turned to Indian vernacular fiction to illustrate the limits of ideology critique. In examining the method of literary analysis that underlies his appropriation of postcolonial history and culture, we appeal to Edward Said's notion of "traveling theory" in order to discuss critically the aesthetic as well as political stakes of using the technology of the modern novel for the allegorical purposes that Latour has in mind. We argue…
The Wonder of Phenomenology
Dreyfus on expertise
Expertise and public ignorance
Recent sociological/philosophical treatments of expertise, best represented by the work of Steve Fuller, attempt to (1) reduce displays of expertise to sophistic exercises of discretionary power, and (2) refute the claim that because laypeople are epistemically inferior to experts, it is rational to defer to an expert's opinion rather than making up one's own mind. But upon inspection, Fuller fails to provide reasonable grounds for liberating lay…
Feyerabend's democratic critique of expertise
Paul Feyerabend is famous for presenting a scathing indictment of modern experts as a threat to democracy. While commentators have questioned the accuracy of his portrayal of experts, they have not assessed the accuracy of his depiction of laypeople. Although Feyerabend has political reasons for wanting to demythologize grandiose notions of expertise, his political project hinders clear thinking about the question by idealizing the alternative la…
The Wonder of Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty and Epistemology Engines
Interactional expertise and embodiment
Does Microcredit “Empower”? Reflections on the Grameen Bank Debate
A graphic measure for game-theoretic robustness
Jagannath's Saligram
Bruno Latour has turned to Indian vernacular fiction to illustrate the limits of ideology critique. In examining the method of literary analysis that underlies his appropriation of postcolonial history and culture, we appeal to Edward Said's notion of "traveling theory" in order to discuss critically the aesthetic as well as political stakes of using the technology of the modern novel for the allegorical purposes that Latour has in mind. We argue…
Ethics and Poverty Tours
Poorismorganized tours that bring predominantly middle and upper class people to impoverished regionsis growing in popularity, touted by its supporters as conscientious consumerism. Evan Selinger examines the arguments of poorisms advocates (it raises awareness of global suffering and provides needed funds to eliminate poverty) and of its detractors (both the intentions behind poorism and the consequences following from it can be morally problema…
Towards a reflexive framework for development
Action Schemes
Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness presents an influential account of why ‘choice architecture’ should be used to ‘nudge’ people into making better decisions than they would otherwise make. In this essay we: (1) explain the main concepts that Thaler and Sunstein rely upon to defend their project; (2) clarify the main conceptual problems that have arisen in discussions about nudges; (3…
Poverty tourism and the problem of consent
Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as ‘poverty tourism’. While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other practices will be more controversial. The purpose of this essay is to address mutually beneficial cases of poverty tourism and advance the following positions. F…
Sustainable Engineering Science for Resolving Wicked Problems
Poverty Tourism, Justice, and Policy
Should poverty tourism be subject, on moral grounds, to specific policy constraints? This article responds to the question by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. It argues that the complexity of the social relationships involved in the tours requires policy-relevant rese…
Confronting the Moral Dimensions of Technology Through Mediation Theory
Creating a taxonomic tool for technocracy and applying it to Silicon Valley
Re-Engineering Humanity
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive…
The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy
Businesses are rushing to collect personal data to fuel surging demand. Data enthusiasts claim personal information that's obtained from the commercial internet, including mobile platforms, social networks, cloud computing, and connected devices, will unlock path-breaking innovation, including advanced data security. By contrast, regulators and activists contend that corporate data practices too often disempower consumers by creating privacy harm…
Amazon’s Ring
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells allow users to easily see and talk with people in camera range over their phones, record and save camera footage to the cloud, and share videos of suspicious activity
Reality
Epistemology (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Engineering (6 works)