It goes without saying that technical artefacts are used in ways that are considered to be
morally good or bad. That the use of technical artefacts has moral significance is not …

A core issue in the philosophy of technology has been the non-neutrality of technology. Most
scholars in the field agree that technologies actively help to shape culture and society, rather …

This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way
they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and …

Ethics appears to be at the eve of a new Copernican revolution. A few centuries ago, the
Enlightenment, with Kant as its major representative, brought about a turnover hitherto …

In the history of ethical thought there has always been an intimate relationship between
agency and questions of morality. But what does this mean for artefacts? It would not be too …

The research programme Philosophy of Technical Artefacts focuses on philosophical
problems of modern technology and the engineering sciences. It addresses such questions …

In recent decades, discussions about the question of how to morally assess technology and
its influence on human beings have taken a new, intriguing twist. Issues about the moral …

According to some philosophers of technology, technology embodies moral values in virtue
of its functional properties and the intentions of its designers. But this paper shows that such …

It is often said that technological artifacts are morally neutral, that they are bereft of morality
save for whatever we might say about their designers and users. Designers and users …

It has been argued that technical artifacts are a special category of objects that require a
combination of the physical and intentional 'descriptions of the world'. In this chapter, I …