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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long
distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to …

This chapter explores the ethics of technology in a double sense: it lays bare points of
application for ethical reflection about technology development, and it analyzes the ethical …

Ever since environmental ethics kicked off as an accepted subdiscipline of applied ethics in
the late 1960s, there have been two primary issues with which theorists have grappled. On …

What is it to be a moral person? What is the nature of morality and why do we need it? What
is the good and how shall I know it? Are moral principles absolute or simply relative to social …

This collection of papers, presented at the biennual SPT meeting at Delft (2005), is devoted
to technology and normativity. As such, that is a very broad topic, since various kinds of …