Philosophy of Digitality: Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt, together with Prof. Dr. Jörg Noller, publishes the first handbook on the philosophy of digitality

In more than 30 contributions, the handbook addresses questions of the digital lifeworld from social, cultural, economic, and ecological perspectives. It is divided into seven systematically interrelated sections that explore methods, key concepts, and dependencies related to digitality, and examine phenomena such as big data, algorithms, virtual realities, and machine learning. For example, Dr. Christian Schröter deals with “technological singularity” as a historical guiding concept, while Dr. Regina Müller takes a feminist perspective on digital developments. Finally, the last section adopts a philosophical meta-level perspective on the vast field of digitalization.

Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt discusses topics and questions of a philosophy of digitality in four contributions: What do digital dystopias tell us about the relationship between humans and machines? (chapter Digital Dystopias). In the chapter Digitality and Sustainability, Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt builds a bridge from the concept of sustainability to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in 2015, and discusses digital technologies in the light of the goals formulated within the SDG framework. Questions of data protection and privacy are addressed in the chapter Ethics, while Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt’s contribution Political Philosophy draws attention to new challenges for political philosophy.

The handbook is available online first via Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-662-70086-0

As a living edition, it is continuously updated and expanded.