The power of technology to transform religions, science, and political institutions has often
been presented as nothing short of revolutionary. Does technology have a similarly …

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 …

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

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 …

One of the great ongoing debates of the 21st century is whether technology—broadly
construed—has proven itself to be on balance beneficial or detrimental to, among other …

Technological innovation not only creates new possibilities and answers, but new problems
and questions as well. New technologies can pose risks to our safety, health, and natural …

Grappling with the moral dimensions of the ways in which technology is applied in today's
world, some of the keenest minds of our time raise and attempt to answer four major …

Contemporary philosophical discussions about technology mirror a profound distance
between technical practice and moral thought. I consider the origins of this gap as reflected …

This paper explores the role of moral uncertainty in explaining the morally disruptive
character of new technologies. We argue that existing accounts of technomoral change do …

This paper explores the ambiguous impact of new information and communications
technologies (ICTs) on the cultivation of moral skills in human beings. Just as twentieth …