Technologies can have profound effects on social moral systems. Is there any way to
systematically investigate and anticipate these potential effects? This paper aims to …

The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how,
exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a …

Abstract In this dissertation, Olya Kudina investigates the complex interactions between
ethics and technology. Center stage to this is the phenomenon of “value dynamism” that …

Trust is a central dimension in the relation between human beings and technologies. In
many discourses about technology, the relation between human beings and technologies is …

Traditionally philosophical discussions on moral responsibility have focused on the human
components of moral action. Accounts of how to ascribe moral responsibility usually …

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 …

The technological advances of contemporary society have outpaced our moral
understanding of the problems that they create. How will we deal with profound ecological …

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 …

Every action we take leaves a trail of information that could, in principle, be recorded and
stored for future use. For instance, one might use the older forms of information technologies …

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 …