Contributions to the Debate On the Moral Relevance of Technological Artifacts
Journal Title: Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad - Year 2019, Vol 11, Issue 21
Abstract
This article is a review of the recent debate on the moral relevance of technological artefacts, fundamentally generated from the approaches of Peter-Paul Verbeek, and it also proposes some contributions to the discussion. Preceded by the theories that assert its moral agency, the assertion of the moral relevance of artifacts is possibly the most important approach made in the field of technology ethics in recent decades. To understand this approach, the text synthesizes the thesis of the moral relevance of the artefacts; then, it makes some precisions about the arguments supporting the thesis to clarify some misunderstandings around which a wide debate has been generated. additionally, it values its contributions to the field of technology ethics; finally, it evaluates the criticisms of this perspective. The text concludes with the presentation of some contributions to the debate, related to the conceptions of agency and moral relevance. Specifically, it is argued that this approach can be sustained in several theories of moral agency, as opposed to criticisms reducing the sense of this conception to the theory of moral agency sustained from the Actor-Red Theory.
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Juan-Carlos Moreno
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