#222 Sven Nyholm: Self-Driving Cars, Love Enhancement, And Sex Robots
Dr. Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His main areas of research are applied ethics (especially the ethics of technology), ethical theory, and the history of ethics. More specifically, he has recently published on love-relationships and biomedical enhancements, sex robots, motivation-enhancements, accident-algorithms for self-driving cars, deep brain stimulation, happiness and well-being, meaning in life, and interpersonal respect and moral reasoning. His work also focuses on the ethics of automated driving, human-robot collaboration, deep brain stimulation (including its effect on the self), and disability and the goods of life. He is especially interested in how robotization and other types of automation affect traditional human values, as well as in existential questions raised by new technological developments.
In this episode, we talk about philosophy of technology. We go through some specific topics, like self-driving cars, love enhancement, and sex robots, and several different philosophical perspectives on them, and their ethical ramifications.
Time Links:
New and emerging technologies, and human agency
Self-driving cars
Self-driving cars and the trolley problem
The medicalization of love, love-enhancing and anti-love drugs
When is love authentic?
Medicalizing love, and state-funded drugs
Can we just let people decide in a free market?
Sex robots, and establishing intimate relationships with them
Different perspectives on the social impact of sex robots
Follow Dr. Nyholm’s work!
Follow Dr. Nyholm’s work:
Faculty Page: https://bit.ly/32kljBJ
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/2EVCmjq
Academia.edu profile: https://bit.ly/2O37J2P
Twitter handle: @SvenNyholm
Relevant papers:
The Medicalization of Love and Narrow and Broad Conceptions of Human Well-Being: https://bit.ly/2XWIfYu
It Loves Me, It Loves Me Not: Is it Morally Problematic to Design Sex Robots that appear to “Love” Their Owners?: https://bit.ly/2LPdkqG