Domingo García-Marzá

• Jaume I University

Today, business is a clear example of the new protagonism of civil society, of a new distribution of responsibility for the public sphere, as shown by the direct call for its current involvement in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. In other words, business is increasing its capacity to act, and with it its social responsibility,...

Drawing on a two-way democracy, the aim of this book is intended as an aid for thinking through viable alternatives to the current state of democracy with regard to its ethical foundations and the moral knowledge implicit in or assumed by the way we perceive and understand democracy. It is intended to stimulate reflection and discussion on the basi...

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the impact, characteristics and challenges underlying the advent of the Second Age of Artificial Intelligence. This new hyperdigitized world offers major possibilities for social development across diverse spheres of activity, such as the economy, health and politics, yet its acritical application is also givin...

The aim of this chapter is to set out a proposal for dialogic digital ethics based on a close reading of the “Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI” written by the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. These need to be digital ethics whose normative horizon of action—their criterion of justice—lies in dialogue and...

The aim of this chapter is to contrast the concept of the public sphere, a basic pillar of any democratic system, with the reality and expectations of a digital society. Big data and metadata have become a double-edged sword for the digitally hyperconnected democratic society. Meanwhile, the incredible potential of Big Data and the different techni...

The aim of this chapter is to analyse the characteristics underlying the design, application and use of mathematical models for Artificial intelligence in political decision-making processes. The phenomenon of digital transformation in conjunction with the adoption of digital solutions to enhance social organisation, as well as the malaise undermin...

The aim of this chapter is to examine the defining characteristics of and challenges posed by the advent of a datafied, hyperconnected and algorithmic approach to the clarification, substantiation and application of morality: hyperethics. For this purpose, ethics will be addressed as practical knowledge concerned with the rationalization of free mo...

The aim of this chapter is to describe and analyse the main causes underlying the emergence and rapid development of what is referred to here as algorithmic democracy. Firstly, we address the reasons why the current mistrust of our liberal democracies, with their commitments to social, economic and environmental rights, is fully deserved, forming p...

The aim of this chapter is to develop a deeper understanding of key features of the economy’s digital transformation and likewise consider their impact. Today, emerging and intrinsically linked phenomena such as cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse are significantly altering the foundations of the economic system, the role...

The aim of this chapter is to critically analyse the challenges facing the application of participatory processes based on Artificial intelligence algorithms in the political sphere, as well the possibilities these can offer. Particular attention is paid to the proposal for an augmented democracy based on digital twin technology and design principl...

The pervasive force with which the current algorithmic colonization has spread across both the state and civil society is the result of an attitude and state of mind, a sense of confidence and naivety that can only be explained by referring to a prior cultural context capable of defining and paving the way for what is now underway. The aim of this...

The aim of this chapter is to explore the possibility of moral machine learning and its possible alternatives. We begin by studying artificial neural networks in order to learn about their potential and shortcomings with regard to the creation of artificial moral intelligence. We then undertake a critical analysis of the main AI-based approaches to...

Given that any democratic proposal must account for the institutional skeleton that sustains it, the aim of this article is to show that this articulation cannot be limited to the state and its laws. Instead, it requires a vision of democracy based on a two-way perspective in which state and civil society complement each other, while being aware, a...

This last chapter presents several examples of how it is possible to create public spheres within the institutions of civil society, especially in large technological or big tech platforms. It is not possible to leave civil society and its institutions out of the democratic system, precisely because it is the space where both meaning and the power...

Este artículo se propone confrontar el concepto de opinión pública con la realidad y las expectativas de una sociedad digitalizada para analizar si la actual colonización algorítmica exige un nuevo cambio estructural de la opinión pública o más bien la retirada de este concepto. Los datos y metadatos masivos se han vuelto un arma de doble filo para...

El actual declive democrático, el incumplimiento sistemático de las expectativas de igualdad, inclusión y participación, está minando la credibilidad y la confianza del conjunto de instituciones que conforman el sistema democrático. La corriente revisionista de la democracia da buena cuenta de este nuevo escenario donde la democracia no es ni la ún...

La Investigación e Innovación Responsables (RRI por sus siglas en inglés) se ha consolidado en una década como un eje central de las políticas sobre ciencia y tecnología de la Unión Europea que cabe abordar desde la perspectiva pluridisciplinar de la ética y la comunicación. Metodología: El estudio propone un protocolo de comunicación para favorece...

Organizations’ communication and social responsibility have been conceived and used as two completely separate areas, whose relationship is merely instrumental. This has led to a current lack of trust in the mechanisms and procedures of corporate social responsibility information. This article proposes an ethics of communication that defines how to...

El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar las consecuencias practicas de una autocomprension positivista de la neuroetica aplicada. Esta etica se ocupa de los impactos eticos y sociales derivados de la utilizacion de los hallazgos neurocientificos, en especial de las neurotecnologias. La intencion es mostrar que para realizar esta tarea la neuroetica...

The fact that democratic reflection centres on deliberative democracies is due to both their internal potential and the erosion of a political reality, which is becoming increasingly distanced from what we either thought of as democracy or expected of it. The present article is framed in this context and puts forward a proposal for a meso-deliberat...

With his proposal for two-way democracy, Jürgen Habermas introduces into the core of democratic theory the potential of social change and transformation inherent in civil society, a value that the current globalization process makes explicit in its full potential. The subsequent development of deliberative democracies has gradually specified the vi...

Kant's principle of publicity is now acquiring an increasingly important role within democratic theory, and specifically within the new theories of institutional design 2. However, the principle has received little attention from classical Kantian scholars, and any consideration is usually limited to the negative formulation 3. Thus, the critical p...

The aim of this paper is to put forward an ethical framework for the conceptualization and development of ethics audits, here understood as a catalyst for company dialogue and in general, for management of ethics in the company. Ethics auditing is understood as the opportunity and agreement to devise a system to inform on ethical corporate behavior...

RECERCA se presenta este año 2004, siguiendo la linea abierta en su nueva época, como espacio de análisis y reflexión filosófico-crítica del presente. Ninguna publicación actual se resiste a subrayar que si bien la filosofía ha estado siempre comprometida con su tiempo, tal compromiso ha variado en intensidad y métodos en las tres últimas décadas....

The purpose of this article is to present a business ethics case from the viewpoint of discursive ethics. Dialogue and subsequent agreement constitute two key ideas of European identity and are two basic concepts of discursive ethics thinking. Our choice for this type of approach was determined by several reasons, of which there are three that shou...