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Applied Digital Humanities Expert Panel Discussion: Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Our team organized a panel discussion with the Whitworth Philosophy Department to discuss the digital world and its intersections with the study of philosophy, as well as the benefits and concerns we see when those two worlds collide. The invited expert panelists were Dr. Rebecca Korf, Dr. Keith Wyma, and Dr. Nate King. Dr. Rebecca Korf has experience in environmental philosophy and philosophy of science and has conducted research that fuses digital elements with philosophical concepts. Dr. Nate King teaches business ethics at Whitworth and studies how businesses in the digital world change, along with the philosophical questions and implications of that reality. Dr. Keith Wyma mainly focuses on ethics and the ethical practices surrounding AI use and production.

Below are some of the questions that were asked during the panel:

  • How would you define digital humanities? What do you see as its purpose in the present academic world?
  • Do you believe digital humanities intersect with philosophy as a discipline?
  • Would you say philosophy benefits from becoming more digital? Why or why not?
  • How does anonymity online influence ethical decision-making or behavior?
  • Do you believe digital spaces change what it means to know something or believe something? (Thinking about societies that have a lack of digital devices versus societies that have an abundance.)
  • What are examples of philosophical questions that digital tools cannot answer?
  • To what extent should software developers or engineers be held ethically responsible for how their technologies are used?
  • What’s your favorite picture on the internet?

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