Scholarly discourse on “disruptive technologies” has been strongly influenced by disruptive
innovation theory. This theory is tailored for analyzing disruptions in markets and business. It …

Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, geo-engineering, social media, or
next-generation genomics have been and will continue to be socially (culturally …

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 …

New technologies have the potential to severely “challenge” or “disrupt” not only our
established social practices but our most fundamental concepts and distinctions like person …

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 …

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 …

In the last few decades, several philosophers have written on the topic of moral revolutions,
distinguishing them from other kinds of society-level moral change. This article surveys …

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 …

According to predictive processing, an increasingly influential paradigm in cognitive science,
the function of the brain is to minimize the prediction error of its sensory input. Conceptual …

Technological innovation is almost always investigated from an economic perspective; with
few exceptions, the specific technological and social nature of innovation is often ignored …