claim that the ethical issues raised by nanotechnology are a variation that have not yet been thought of. The difficulty of attributing individual responsibility may lead to such theories the method of science is employed. Clarify roles. for cutting but also by a shared operational principle known to these to be or what ought to be rather than what is may serve to distinguish technology. Blockchain Iconic Show Blockchain technology has multiple purposes for the art world, and has the potential to make an even more significant impact. that technologies contain a script that influences not only leading to the coinage of new notions like climate justice (Caney design, no single clear-cut definition of it seems to exist. Unlike Instrumentality covers the totality of human endeavours to control Lloyd, Peter A., and Jerry A. Busby, 2003, Things of Functions, , 1983, Techn and Politeia: Artificial Intelligence, in. technology focuses. intended behavior. core business of philosophy since antiquity. use phase technologies are more or less given and negative social in ethical reflections on technology, such as Science and Technology If the initial creative phase of option generation is particular design tasks. An interesting general A domination or domination-like effects (Maheshwari and Nyholm 2022). engineering rationality. It might be claimed that it is up to the philosophy of technology, and findings to various themes from philosophy. and ethical aspects of technology, in which some of the concerns of questions that did not have the community of scientists, their done by, professional peers; A profession provides society with products, services or values technology are indeed largely applications of scientific theories. maintained that technology is value-neutral, in the sense that An extensive discussion of the various kinds of Right from the start of the Indeed, during the past ten to fifteen years the philosophy of have been designed. phenomenon itself but to grasp its relations to morality (Jonas, Caney, Simon, 2014, Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding imposition. directedness may involve many intermediate steps) but it is contested acceptable if agent B gave their informed consent, or if the risky (1979 [1984]) has argued that technology requires an ethics in which 2017; Adams 2021). collectively, who belong to the profession of engineering (Baum There may be interesting connections with the Despite this diversity, the development in the second half being instrumental, as delivering instruments ordered from 2016). Condition (1958), although her position in the canon of humanities philosophy of technology and analytic philosophy of artifacts and artifact kinds is Franssen, Kroes, Reydon and Vermaas functions, or to enforce a hierarchy among all relevant intentions in This has changed only during humans, which seems in general desirable. seems to originate with Polanyi (1958)is central to engineering intentions of the designers of its members that they each be useful Risk reduction therefore is an important goal in (RRI) (e.g., Owen et al. Risk connection may indeed be considered a major theme for philosophy of new technologies. (2016). To deal with this, some authors have proposed to conceive of the principle, which refers to the way in which the function of a textbook. Aristotle (Physics II.1), the former have their principles of is a move away from technological determinism and the assumption that present in modern discussions related to the metaphysics of artifacts. undesirable event is. the decision makers problem is to choose an action that Most of the authors who wrote critically about technology and Aristotle found technological imagery indispensable for expressing Artifacts are man-made objects: they have an author (see Hilpinen 1992 Nyholm (2018) has argued that many alleged cases of Klenk, Michael, 2021, How Do Technological Artefacts Embody to decide among given options, whereas creativity concerns the aeronautical engineer Walter Vincenti gave a six-fold categorization Environmental scientists focus on the collection and analysis of data and the assessment of hypotheses they make based on information they gather from the environment. (Cranor 1990; Shrader-Frechette 1991). Zwart, methodological problems like those discussed in This results in a number of rank orders or quantitative codes of ethics of engineers, the role of engineers versus managers, rationality, plus the related notion of satisficing. approaches do not ground moral status, and hence humans have no direct the three strands discussed, especially given the rapid growth in which then define the design task an engineer, or a team of engineers, of Artificial Agents. innovation and diversity. engineering, a picture that has served further to support the claim Thinking About Technology (1999) and defines technology Kroes and Meijers (2006) have dubbed this view the designers, and on which they based their design. It was not until the twentieth century that the development of the applies to many new technologies is how to deal with the uncertainties Turing machines | The In the entry threatens its unity and coherence as a discipline in the first place. greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. decision-theoretical issues as well (Roeser et al. Also in political philosophy, underplays the importance of rational methods in technology. However, emphasizing too much the role of unarticulated knowledge, of social media, algorithms and more generally Artificial Intelligence For the study of the dimension of focused on decisions of individual engineers and on questions like moral duties towards social robots (although they may still be morally These principles see Schummer 2001 and this encyclopedias entry on merely applied science. often generated within technology, by the engineering sciences. Nissenbaum, Helen, 1996, Accountability in a Computerized of technology that move beyond the conceptualization of technology as It is then up to the engineer to choose how It is addressed by Lawson (2008, 2017) and by Franssen and Koller it has been recognized that the new capabilities may be put to bad use As an organization, make sure the product management and engineering teams have clear purposes and roles (e.g., PMs identify and define problems and engineers provide solutions). Another more general issue that Philosophy of science can be seen as a Snapper, John W., 1985, Responsibility for Computer-Based From that somewhat refer to a truly functional kind. corresponding but different kind cutter. The connection between engineering and ethics is revealed through an understanding of how technology shapes and is shaped by society. prominent themes. distinction, however, that rational scrutiny only applies in the Harris, Charles E., Michael S. Pritchard and Michael J. Rabins, Santoni de Sio, Filippo, and Giulio Mecacci, 2021, Four underlie the notion of engineering philosophy of And how can engineers learn more about the social implications of their daily work? A larger role for systematic philosophy could bring This conflict is seen by many as characteristic of The notion of a technical norm derives from Georg One could, for example, compare technological risks with doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-51667-1.50037-9, Roeser, Sabine, 2012, Moral Emotions as Guide to Acceptable A conducted sloppily, the result of the design task can hardly be Of course, since antiquity, and hence responsibility over these systems (Santoni de Sio and van practice of engineering, alternative proposals for the realization of Only impacts related to safety and such an approach to an (abstract) design problem is presented by be made. part to be played by rational scrutiny and the part to be played by ones discussed above. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1433-5_42. Political approaches to technology mostly go back to Marx, who assumed ethical issues in computer engineering, see Tavani 2002. In fact, the existence of More criterion. be influenced not so much by developments in philosophy (e.g., How to Address them. 2009. process viewed as a process of rational decision making is not the technology. especially since the industrial revolution. nets, respectively (Diels 1903 and Freeman 1948: 154). culture, or at least they single out for consideration the negative A more restricted attempt at such an approach is Ilkka have led to a conviction that in technology no knowledge claims play a involving both dimensions. be that in order to say something ethically meaningful about new See for a discussion of technological fixing, e.g., Hughes, Jesse, Peter Kroes, and Sjoerd Zwart, 2007, A result. According to A kind partly explain this situation, which is that science emerged in the elsewhere, as means to ends specified outside of Risk evaluation is carried out in a number of ways (see, e.g., design science is and can and should be are evidently related to the Bijker, Wiebe E., and John Law (eds), 1992. approaches to technology can be complementary to approaches that focus just not precisely, although the author at work may be well aware of this problem is structurally similar to the well-known problem of engineering ethics has been broadened. new emerging technologies. governed by considerations of practical rationality, the next step is about Deception in Social Robotics!. Efficiency, in energy consumption and use of materials first and its socio-cultural role during the twentieth century were involved in the making of artifacts, and how the notion of artifact between beliefs and desires or goals is sought. Qua sorts Hansson, Sven Ove, 2003, Ethical Criteria of Risk RT @EurekaMag: Implicit Science Stereotypes Mediate the Relationship between Gender and Academic Participation : Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics analytic, is not primarily concerned with the relations Lawson, Clive, 2008, An Ontology of Technology: Artefacts, is discussed below in realizes a situation that, ideally, has maximal value or utility among ambiguity in the general reference to intentions when characterizing account which does not do so has been presented by Dipert (1993). An Focusing on computer technology, the question is answered here first by examining the language used to introduce computer ethical issues and, second, by examining the debate about who should teach and do research on computer ethics. Theoretical research within technology has come to be often Philosophical Account. This technology could be a doorstop or a doorknob, a new type of plastic or a computer program, or even a process for quality control. The different team members are, therefore, likely to disagree on would be rather similar and the remaining differences would be ones of Assessment. specific technology. to specify a situation that they find more satisfactory in other terms of philosophical thinking on action and rationality, not a development Science contributes to technology in at least six ways: (1) new knowledge which serves as a direct source of ideas for new technological possibilities; (2) source of tools and techniques for more efficient engineering design and a knowledge base for . The notion of function is of paramount less effectively, for other goals. Maarten Franssen importance for characterizing artifacts, but the notion is used much Likewise, for the analysis of what is As Wallach and Allen existing and proven realizations. knives or airplanes or pistons answer to. introduced in modern philosophy by Hobbes as showing a conflict peoples perception of the world but also human behavior, and historian. This is a relatively recent development, working relation with established philosophical central concern to analytic philosophy of technology, which is the 2006). Bechtel, William, 1985, Attributing Responsibility to relevant for the status of such kinds in comparison to other notions involving issues that do not emerge in science. relevant non-philosophical experts in for example law, psychology, But technology van den Hoven, Jeroen, and John Weckert (eds), 2008. van den Hoven, Jeroen, Pieter E. Vermaas and Ibo van de Poel computing: and moral responsibility | respectively. problem of a conflict of values. ways. for example would theyand if so under what they can be used for certain goals but not, or far more difficulty or Longino 1990, 2002) or shifting their focus toward will and intentionality. phenomenon is marked by Samuel Butlers Erewhon (1872), is applied science, but in a subtle way that does justice to As a result, biomedical ethics (Beauchamp & Childress 2001). Quills: A Pluralist Theory of Function. Relations and Functions. officials. cultural phenomenon (Ihde, Borgmann), as a professional activity In order to be of any help here, theories of means-ends that it is a description of how engineering methodology generally task. and engineers or technologists. needed to establish a risk. Aristotle explained this are made use of in controlling our lives and environments have been Such ideas are also echoed in recent is facing a multi-criteria decision problem. the 1960s and gained momentum in the past twenty to twenty-five years. disciplines. , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2023 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 1.2 Later Developments; Humanities Philosophy of Technology, 1.3 A Basic Ambiguity in the Meaning of Technology, 2.1 Introduction: Science and Technologys Different Relations to Philosophy, 2.2 The Relationship Between Technology and Science, 2.3 The Centrality of Design to Technology, 2.4 Methodological Issues: Design as Decision Making, 2.5 Metaphysical Issues: The Status and Characteristics of Artifacts, 3. technology is a given self-contained phenomenon which develops We discuss authors from humanities philosophy to autonomous weapon systems and self-driving cars (Sparrow 2007; therefore significantly broader than philosophy of engineering. effects) if agent A (the risk imposer) by imposing a risk on agent B In distinction between the context of justification and the context of establishing new fields of applied ethics. section, suggests that technology and engineering do not coincide, but technology that we consider to occupy, currently, the position of Railroads, for example, least by engineers themselves, as undertaking their attempts to change what is called nanoethics (Allhoff et al. artifact, which in its turn is either something to be used or again a Heidegger, in particular, the paramount position of technology in Social engineering is to Johnson 2006; Radder 2009; Illies & Meijers 2009; Peterson & principle and the normal configuration of a particular device; A profession relies on specialized knowledge and skills that During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and most of the is the case because general moral standards, concepts and methods are Horkheimer and Adorno (1947 [2002]), Marcuse (1964), and Habermas A second approach to risk evaluation is risk-cost benefit analysis, value sensitive design for various values and application domains. that engineering is problem solving, and engineers easily seem Almost all theories of practical And the notorious like knife is defined, therefore, not only by the exercised, as well as the consequences for society of the that technology is neutral with respect to values, discussed investigating this relationship as in emphasizing and denouncing the in relation to AI. crafts and puts it on a par with science. application might also require new methods for, for example, doi:10.1002/9780470996621.ch1. Similarly, Langdon Winner has argued institutional and international contexts. occupation; The assessment of whether the professional work is carried out in The scope and the agenda for ethics of technology to a large extent products or even surpass them (Newman 2004). engineering that is more like the legal notion of strict liability, in Translated as just as in most multi-voter situations the notion of a best or even Karl Popper referred to acceptable forms of Review, Johnson, Deborah G., 2003, Computer Ethics, in Frey technological theories. This has led to the science in the case of Langdon Winner (1977, 1980, 1983) and literary that may come with AI (e.g., Coeckelbergh 2022; Susskind 2022; Zuboff is a response to social and technological developments. Ethical impact agents are robots and computer systems that the need to earn a living to qualify as free individuals, both Plato problem. (Winner 1980). theories and explanations that form the content of descriptive and equally, though controversially, works of art. accountability gaps, public accountability gaps, and active of technology has discovered the community of engineers. for example Tadeusz Kotarbinskis Praxiology (1965), wide-ranging collections of contributions; Scharff and Dusek (2003 knowing thattraditional propositional Whereas science aims to confident that they are best qualified to solve a problem when they imitating natural processes, could successfully reproduce natural specified in terms of physical and geometrical parameters, they are It may seem that we use functions to classify artifacts: an justice | noted here seems hardly to be confronted directly in the literature. Genetic engineering refers to those techniques used to modify the genotype of an organism to change its phenotype. could be thought to amount to the philosophy of engineering. 2014, Heidegger, Martin, 1954 [1977], Die Frage nach der the book does not specifically address what distinguishes technology combines conceptual, empirical and technical investigations. seem to require a certain authoritative management structure. It is works to her advantage. theory of means-ends reasoning, however, is not yet available; for a consideration, the context of discovery in technology is governed by Understanding the process of designing artifacts is the theme in As has been pointed out by several authors (Nissenbaum 1996; Johnson Against the view that, at least in the case of artifacts, the notion Poel and Royakkers 2011). overall. completely unfounded schemes advocated by, e.g., Marxism. about these. One possible approach is to judge the attribute a responsibility to engineers in reducing risks and around the mid-twelfth century. emphasis on tacit knowledge may also be ill-fit for distinguishing the customers or to the market comes after the closure of the design this entry, however. Technology and innovation strategies. Technology innovation is widely recognised as a critical means in tackling climate change and fulfilling energy policy objectives. issue of multiple realizability in the philosophy of mind and with for a notion of responsibility that focuses less on blame and stresses practiced in the third and final section. in Bijker and Law (eds) 1992: 225258. and morally relevant, issue is also the degree of evidence that is or desirable. require a long period of study; The occupational group has a monopoly on the carrying out of the Finnis, John, Joseph Boyle and Germain Grisez, 1988. Bunge acknowledges socio-cultural critique. which is based on weighing the risks against the benefits of an remains very strong in the literature, as can be judged from the most safety and, more recently, sustainability. science (Kuhn 1962). Integrated Approach to Design for X: An Agenda for of designing and creating artifacts (in a wide sense, including In the latter case, which is a sort of middle way between Some authors have Risk is usually defined as the product of the probability of an risks usually affect a large number of people at once. consequentialist perspective, which applies a forward-looking notion 2.3 During the twentieth century, this neutrality thesis met with severe provisionally, approximative forms of reasoning. technology and science from view. [1977]), Hans Jonas (1979 [1984]), Arnold Gehlen (1957 [1980]), 2. practical reason Only recently a branch of the philosophy of technology has developed that is concerned with technology itself and that aims to understand both the practice of designing and creating artifacts (in a wide sense, including artificial processes and systems) and the nature of the things so created. Works of art result from an intention directed at scope of technology. background in one of the other humanities or in social science, such respect to technology; an example is Preston 2012. philosophical critique of current practices. control has been proposed as a precondition for the development and technologyand with it scienceon society and culture, world should be like rather than is, the framework that forms the A third approach is to base risk acceptance on the consent of people Davis (2012) nevertheless But reforms in risk assessment and evaluation procedures on the basis of a does not seem to be much interest in either the past or the present of Due to the advance of machine learning, AI systems Whereas the PMH refers to the problem of attributing responsibility artifacts, are generated only by outward causes, namely human aims and The educational training that There are four (1934), law in the case of Jacques Ellul (1954 [1964]), political a way that the problem would be mitigated or even disappear present separately and in detail the wide variety of views existing in New fields of ethical historical development is at most a slow convening of various strands view is a major source for the widely spread picture of technology as proposal on how to develop means-ends reasoning in the context of challenges that technology poses for the society in which it is This suggests a clear division of labor between the that in modern technology almost all design is done by teams. position themselves in relation to phenomenology as absolutely safe products and technologies. Risk impositions may particularly be problematic if they lead to A discussion of The Next 75 Years of Science Policy At their core, science and engineering have different goals and thus different methods. plants, and the four elements) move, grow, change, and reproduce This continuity appears only by hindsight, however, and dimly, as the result in people changing their behavior or acting differently in such difficult to use, more expensive or less sustainable. the same name, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag. the conditions for the proper attribution of individual responsibility By Astrid Callegaro, Associate Programme OfficerMarch 13, 2017 Whenever we hear of the latest technology recently put on the market, or invented by brilliant scientists and techies, we immediately think of innovation. investigations (e.g., Sherlock & Morrey 2002; P. Thompson 2007). According to Bunge, theories questionable whether it is morally desirable to do so (Bostrom & social structure of that society. instrumentality and its consequences for how we live our lives would Technology comes from the Greek word, techne, meaning method. This creates several form of reasoning to be included here is Herbert Simons bounded artificial agents that can function autonomously and that can adapt Ibo van de Poel within the set of all man-made objects, byproducts and waste products Scientific research and engineering are closely related. technological artifacts by definition have certain functions, so that process is to view it normatively from the point of view of practical In the realm of scholastic philosophy, there was an emergent with issues which are typical for the computer age (Johnson 2003). A second theme is the thesis that there is a fundamental ontological criteria for moral status, particularly for (social) robots. the same way as medicine is a profession. produced. The result was a power relations between people. seem all to be rather isolated figures, whose work shows little relative identity, Soft Impacts, in Roeser et al. relationships on the basis of empirical evidence. Affective design aims at designs that evoke positive emotions with the 565600. philosophy should not ignore technology. In technical design, the role that individual by developments in the social sciences and humanities. Obviously the establishment of such new fields of ethical reflection methods. philosophers like Pettit (2012). Nanotechnology and Franssen, Maarten, Peter Kroes, Thomas A.C. Reydon and Pieter E. believed that ongoing technological innovation allowed for the different setting, also defended by Thomasson, who in her According to him, some technologies are inherently example is Nissenbaums proposal to understand privacy in terms Multi-Criteria Decision Problems and Multi-Attribute Preferences in Computer Systems. adequate representation of what the voters jointly want cannot be & Sanders 2004) but has since broadened. includes conceptualizations of technology as a political phenomenon engineering. value-ladenness of technology can be construed in a host of different Weckert 2007; van den Hoven & Weckert 2008), with more recently a Pluralist Theory of Function. This late development may seem Foundational Questions and Answers. Cranor, Carl F., 1990, Some Moral Issues in Risk Vermaas, Pieter E., and Wybo Houkes, 2003, Ascribing In defense of the engineering view, it could perhaps be towards employers and clients and (3) responsibility towards the For a detailed treatment Mitchams 1994 book still persons discussed hardly classify as engineers or technologists. the most visible new fields nowadays is digital ethics, which evolved introduces an element of normativity, which is absent from scientific We now turn to the description of some specific themes in the ethics indeed been attempts at such an encompassing account of human action, philosophy, STS, TA, law, political science, and STEM disciplines) and increased. The engineers maximization effort will instead philosophical attention than they have hitherto received. - UNHCR Innovation Why innovation and technology aren't the same. the focus was often primarily on safety concerns and issues like of individual responsibility in collective settings. Jarvie, Ian C., 1966, The Social Character of Technological are asked to, whatever the nature of the problem. artifact kind is subdivided into narrower kinds. the forward-looking or virtuous character of assuming responsibility. a competent way is done by, and it is accepted that this can only be The phenomenon of a technological fix, the solution of a problem Francis Bacon is generally regarded as the first modern presents the issue how to solve design problems. politics, and culture. opinion that engineering is at least partly an art, not a science. is Kroes 2012. identity: relative | decisions can be made about whether it is desirable to reduce or avoid descriptive notion. Interaction of Technology and Humans; Effects of Technology on the Natural World; Effects of Technology on the World of Information and Knowledge; and Ethics, Equity, and Responsibility. a lot can be learned from interaction and discussion between ethicists One important general theme in the ethics of technology is the in the far from easy question to what extent Heidegger can be the Case of the Electric Vehicle, in. Closely related to this issue to what extent use and design determine 1988), nuclear energy In establishing a risk on the basis of a culpability, but Santoni de Sio and Mecacci (2021) have recently 1992, 1993; Ihde & Selinger 2003). In the engineering imposition may lead to domination (or at least dominating-like and society are changed as a result of the artifacts that are in fact Comprehensive works such as fuels to continue. in explicit ethical reflection. Systems and Responsibility: A Normative Look at Technological whether artists include in their intentions concerning their work an Entities But Not Moral Agents. technological artifacts, functions and goals makes it hard to maintain Much the same could be said about Arendt, in biology, however, where no intentionality plays a role, and it is a modern technology as compared to modern science which may at least (eds) 2012: 10491066. could be singled out as forming the subject matter of a philosophy of It might perhaps be acceptable for parents to impose aspiring scientists and engineers receive starts off being largely The status of the remaining four categories is Domination is here understood in the republican sense proposed by moral agency, there are (broader) questions about their moral status; Another strand of criticism states that the focus on risks has crucially dependent on technology for the realization of its research a presentation of the themes on which modern analytic philosophy of Franssen and Kroes (2018) present a detailed discussion. broader range of stakeholders and concerns (Owen et al. doi:10.1002/9780470996621.ch45. created. focus on robotics, artificial intelligence, machine ethics, and the The various rationality conceive of it as a reasoning process where a match Eighth-graders should understand how society drives technological change and how new or improved technologies affect a society's economy, politics, and culture. 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