TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotions and Automation in a High-Tech Workplace
T2 - a Commentary
AU - Umbrello, Steven
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In a recent article, Madelaine Ley evaluates the future of work, specifically robotised workplaces, via the lens of care ethics. Like many proponents of care ethics, Ley draws on the approach and its emphasis on relationality to understand ethical action necessary for worker wellbeing. Her paper aims to fill a research gap by shifting away from the traditional contexts in which care ethics is employed, i.e., health and care contexts and instead appropriates the approach to tackle the sociotechnicity of robotics and how caring should be integrated into non-traditional contexts. This paper comments on that of Ley’s, making the case that the author does, in fact, achieve this end while still leaving areas of potential future research open to buttressing the approach she presents.
AB - In a recent article, Madelaine Ley evaluates the future of work, specifically robotised workplaces, via the lens of care ethics. Like many proponents of care ethics, Ley draws on the approach and its emphasis on relationality to understand ethical action necessary for worker wellbeing. Her paper aims to fill a research gap by shifting away from the traditional contexts in which care ethics is employed, i.e., health and care contexts and instead appropriates the approach to tackle the sociotechnicity of robotics and how caring should be integrated into non-traditional contexts. This paper comments on that of Ley’s, making the case that the author does, in fact, achieve this end while still leaving areas of potential future research open to buttressing the approach she presents.
KW - Applied ethics
KW - Automation
KW - Capabilities approach
KW - Work
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149362690&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s13347-023-00615-w
DO - 10.1007/s13347-023-00615-w
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
AN - SCOPUS:85149362690
SN - 2210-5433
VL - 36
JO - Philosophy and Technology
JF - Philosophy and Technology
IS - 1
M1 - 12
ER -