While innovation should be about socioeconomic transformation of society, concerns have
been raised about its negative externalities including growing disparities within and …

Organizations 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 …

The governance of emerging science and innovation is a major challenge for contemporary
democracies. In this paper we present a framework for understanding and supporting efforts …

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If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the
term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it …

Experiments in geoengineering–intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate to reduce
global warming–have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the proper role of tech-nology in a good society, and to
define criteria for assessing the extent to which technologies contribute to the quality of …

A traditional problem of ethics in mathematics is the denial of social responsibility. Pure
mathematics is viewed as neutral and value free, and therefore free of ethical responsibility …

This paper critically engages with new self-tracking technologies. In particular, it focuses on
a conceptual tension between the idea that disclosing personal information increases one's …

The history of the philosophy of technology is marked by a transition in its approach to
technology. This transition is often indicated as an 'empirical turn'(Achterhuis 2001; Kroes …