Values in Engineering and Technology
AbstractThis chapter explores what values play a role in engineering and technology. It briefly argues against the thesis that technology is value-neutral. It then makes a distinction between different...
View ArticleAn Ethical Framework for Evaluating Experimental Technology
AbstractHow are we to appraise new technological developments that may bring revolutionary social changes? Currently this is often done by trying to predict or anticipate social consequences and to use...
View ArticleEngineering Ethics
AbstractEngineering ethics concerns the decisions and actions of engineers, individually as well as collectively. It exists as a field of teaching and research since the 1980s. The professional...
View ArticleA Coherentist View on the Relation Between Social Acceptance and Moral...
AbstractAccording to the empirical turn, we should take empirical facts into account in asking and answering philosophical, including ethical, questions about technology. In this chapter, the...
View ArticleEngineering Ethics
AbstractEngineering ethics concerns the decisions and actions of engineers, individually as well as collectively. It exists as a field of teaching and research since the 1980s. The professional...
View ArticleInformed Consent in Asymmetrical Relationships: an Investigation into...
AbstractIn recent years, informed consent has been suggested as a way to deal with risks posed by engineered nanomaterials. We argue that while we can learn from experiences with informed consent in...
View ArticleCan Technology Embody Values?
AbstractUnder the banner of Value Sensitive Design (VSD) various proposals have been put forward in recent times to integrate moral values in technology through design. These proposals suppose that...
View ArticleSafe-by-Design: from Safety to Responsibility
AbstractSafe-by-design (SbD) aims at addressing safety issues already during the R&D and design phases of new technologies. SbD has increasingly become popular in the last few years for addressing...
View ArticleThe Food Warden: An Exploration of Issues in Distributing Responsibilities...
AbstractThe Safe-by-Design approach in synthetic biology holds the promise of designing the building blocks of life in an organism guided by the value of safety. This paves a new way for using...
View ArticleDesign for value change
AbstractIn the value sensitive design (VSD) literature, there has been little attention for how values may change during the adoption and use of a sociotechnical system, and what that implies for...
View ArticleVarieties of responsibility: two problems of responsible innovation
AbstractThe notion of responsible innovation suggests that innovators carry additional responsibilities (to society, stakeholders, users) beyond those commonly suggested. In this paper, we will discuss...
View ArticleHow to Weigh Values in Value Sensitive Design: A Best Worst Method Approach...
AbstractProactively including the ethical and societal issues of new technologies could have a positive effect on their acceptance. These issues could be captured in terms of values. In the literature,...
View ArticleAlgorithms and values in justice and security
AbstractThis article presents a conceptual investigation into the value impacts and relations of algorithms in the domain of justice and security. As a conceptual investigation, it represents one step...
View ArticleCore Values and Value Conflicts in Cybersecurity: Beyond Privacy Versus Security
AbstractThis chapter analyses some of the main values, and values conflicts, in relation to cybersecurity by distinguishing four important value clusters that should be considered when deciding on...
View ArticleDigital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive...
AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the characteristics of digital platforms challenge the fundamental assumptions of value sensitive design (VSD). Traditionally, VSD methods assume that we can...
View ArticleEmbedding Values in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems
AbstractOrganizations such as the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI and the IEEE have recently formulated ethical principles and (moral) values that should be adhered to in the design and deployment of...
View ArticleCOVID-19, uncertainty, and moral experiments
AbstractPandemics like COVID-19 confront us with decisions about life and death that come with great uncertainty, factual as well as moral. How should policy makers deal with such uncertainty? We...
View ArticleMapping value sensitive design onto AI for social good principles
AbstractValue sensitive design (VSD) is an established method for integrating values into technical design. It has been applied to different technologies and, more recently, to artificial intelligence...
View ArticleResponsible innovation, anticipation and responsiveness: case studies of...
AbstractThe collection and use of personal data on citizens in the design and deployment of algorithms in the domain of justice and security is a sensitive topic. Values like fairness, autonomy,...
View ArticleWerthaltigkeit der Technik
ZusammenfassungTechnologie ist eng mit Werten verbunden. Gelegentlich gefährden Technologien bestimmte Werte. Aber Technologien können auch Werte unterstützen, wie beispielsweise das menschliche...
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