Human activity is fundamentally embedded in and constituted by technology. In this regard,
technology influences not only how people experience the world, but also which possibilities …

According to the Value-Neutrality Thesis (VNT), technology is morally and politically neutral,
neither good nor bad. A knife may be put to bad use to murder an innocent person or to …

We propose a pragmatist account of value change that helps to understand how and why
values sometimes change due to technological developments. Inspired by John Dewey's …

Technological revolutions are among the most important things that happen to humanity.
Ethical assessment in the incipient stages of a potential technological revolution faces …

What have we learned? Is there in the contribution to this special theme a clue as to what is
the best way of integrating ethical inquiry into health technology assessment (HTA) …

This chapter reconstructs the patterns of moral argumentation typical for debates between
enthusiastic proponents and skeptic opponents about the (expected) impacts of …

Calls for an ethically aligned technology design have led companies to publish lists of value
principles that their engineers should adhere to. However, it is questionable whether such …

The techno-moral scenarios (TMS) approach has been developed to explore the interplay
between technology, society and morality. Focused on new and emerging sciences and …

In this paper I build on Moor's idea that the task of computer ethics is to fill policy vacuum's
created by the introduction of computer and information technology. The traditionalist …

Floridi and Sanders, seminal work,“On the morality of artificial agents” has catalyzed
attention around the moral status of computer systems that perform tasks for humans …