“An Eye Turned into a Weapon”
A Philosophical Investigation of Remote Controlled, Automated, and Autonomous Drone Warfare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19562677 |
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| Authors | Oliver Müller (0000-0002-6789-4630, University of Freiburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 875-896 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-5433 • E-ISSN: 2210-5441 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13347-020-00440-5 |
| OpenAlex | W3110701114 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
Military drones (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) combine surveillance technology with missile equipment in a far-reaching way. In this article, I argue that military drones could and should be object for a philosophical investigation, referring in particular on Chamayou’s theory of the drone, who also coined the term “an eye turned into a weapon.” Focusing on issues of human self-understanding, agency, and alterity, I examine the intricate human-technology relations in the context of designing and deploying military drones. For that purpose, I am drawing on the postphenomenological approach developed by Don Ihde in order to systematize the manifold aspects of human-technology relations in a four-level model (embodiment relations, hermeneutic relations, alterity relations, and background relations). This inquiry also includes a critical reflection on the (often hidden) normative implications of this technology. In doing so, I do not intent to offer an exhaustive relational ontology of military drones. I rather aim at providing a framework that is able to capture the core dimensions of this technology and their complex interrelations in a systematic way that has been missing in the philosophical debate so far
Alterity · Drone · Epistemology · Normative · Ontology · Philosophy of science · Philosophy of technology · Sociology · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · History · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
The Invisible Man
The Machine Question
Technology and the Lifeworld
What Things Do
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
In Defence of New Wars
Moral Predators
Introduction to the special issue on 4E cognition
Killer Robots
On the Morality of Artificial Agents
The Extended Mind
Lawfare and Armed Conflicts
Drone
A Theory of the Drone
Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence
Visual power
Surveillance and violence from afar
The labor of surveillance and bureaucratized killing
Being Seen
Humans, Animals, and Robots
Keep adding. On kill lists, drone warfare and the politics of databases
Artificial Morality. Concepts, Issues and Challenges
Being and Nothingness
From a View to a Kill
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