In recent times, non-human beings, objects, and struc-tures – for example computational tools and devices – have acquired new moral worth and intrinsic values. Kantian tradition in ethics teaches that human beings do not have to be treated solely as “means”, or as “things”, that is in a merely instrumental way, but also have to be treated as “ends”. I contend that human beings can be treated as “things ” in the sense that they have to be “re-spected ” as things are sometimes (sections 1-2). Peo-ple have to reclaim instrumental and moral values al-ready dedicated to external things and objects. To the aim of reconfiguring human dignity in our technolog-ical world I introduce the concept of moral mediator (section 3), which takes advantage of...
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According to some philosophers of technology, technology embodies moral values in virtue of its func...
One of the important questions discussed by philosophers of technology has to do with the moral sign...
This paper explores the ambiguous impact of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) o...
It is often said that technological artifacts are morally neutral, that they are bereft of morality ...
It has become a popular position in the philosophy of technology to claim that some or all technolog...
The development of autonomous artifacts enabled by artificial intelligence techniques is creating ne...
The discussion about moral agency and technology is troubled by some severe misunderstandings. Too o...
In the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant held that we should regard other human beings as ends in th...
paper we discuss the hypothesis that, ‘moral agency is distributed over both humans and technologica...
In the past decades, computers have become more and more involved in society by the rise of ubiquito...
This paper follows directly from an earlier paper where we discussed the requirements for an artifac...
Abstract. The increased use of autonomous, learning intelligent systems is causing a new division of...
In recent decades, discussions about the question of how to morally assess technology and its influe...
This chapter explores the ethics of technology in a double sense: it lays bare points of application...
If nanotechnology lives up to its revolutionary promises, do we then need a ‘new’ type of ethics to ...
According to some philosophers of technology, technology embodies moral values in virtue of its func...
One of the important questions discussed by philosophers of technology has to do with the moral sign...
This paper explores the ambiguous impact of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) o...
It is often said that technological artifacts are morally neutral, that they are bereft of morality ...