Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction

Preface
Contents
About the Authors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	References
Chapter 2: Respect for Humanity
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Humanity: Autonomy as Rational Agency
		2.2.1 Alien Desires
		2.2.2 Humanity Revisited: The Ability to Set and Pursue One’s Own Ends
			2.2.2.1	 Agential Capacity
			2.2.2.2	 Authenticity
	2.3 Why Humanity Matters Morally
		2.3.1 The Commonsense Intuition
		2.3.2 Kant on Humanity as an End in Itself
		2.3.3 The Centrality of Autonomy
	2.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Mobile Devices and Autonomy: Individual-Level Effects
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 What Are the Devices?
	3.3 How Mobile Devices Undermine Autonomy
		3.3.1 Capacity
			3.3.1.1	 Baseline Capacities
			3.3.1.2	 External Constraints
			3.3.1.3	 Cognitive Inhibitions
			3.3.1.4	 Options
		3.3.2 Authenticity
			3.3.2.1	 Manipulation
			3.3.2.2	 Incoherent Motivational States
			3.3.2.3	 Alienated Desires
			3.3.2.4	 Adaptive Preferences
	3.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Ourselves
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Digital Minimalism
	4.3 The Kantian Grounds of the Duty
	4.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Others I: Duties of Virtue
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 The Argument to Be an Attention Ecologist
	5.3 Applications of the Duty I: Always as Ends in Themselves
		5.3.1 Implications for Parents and Teachers
		5.3.2 Implications for Close Friends
	5.4 Applications of the Duty II: Never as a Mere Means
		5.4.1 Implications for Employers
		5.4.2 Implications for Developers and Deployers
	5.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Others II: Duties of Right
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Duties of Right Versus Duties of Virtue
	6.3 The Argument to Be an Attention Ecologist from Duties of Right
	6.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Group Agents
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Group Autonomy and Group Harms
	7.3 Trust, Trustworthiness, and Democratic Legitimacy
		7.3.1 Trust and Trustworthiness
		7.3.2 Democratic Legitimacy
		7.3.3 How the Attention Economy Undermines Trust and Trustworthiness
	7.4 Implications of the Group-Level Duties
	7.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
	8.1 Polestar Cases Revisited
	8.2 Some Reflections on Optimism
	References
Index