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Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design

Sources, Theory, Values and Application Domains

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Jeroen van den Hoven

    1. Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  2. Pieter E. Vermaas

    1. Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  3. Ibo van de Poel

    1. Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  • Addresses myriad aspects at the intersection of technology design and ethics
  • Enables designers to anticipate, prevent and resolve societal & ethical issues
  • Evaluates different application domains including architecture, information and Technology
  • Provides theoretical foundations for the field including design methodologies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (36 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Design for Values: An Introduction

    • Jeroen van den Hoven, Pieter E. Vermaas, Ibo van de Poel
    Pages 1-7

  3. Sources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Value Sensitive Design: Applications, Adaptations, and Critiques

      • Janet Davis, Lisa P. Nathan
      Pages 11-40

    3. Participatory Design and Design for Values

      • Maja van der Velden, Christina Mörtberg
      Pages 41-66

    4. Technology Assessment and Design for Values

      • Armin Grunwald
      Pages 67-86

  4. Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Conflicting Values in Design for Values

      • Ibo van de Poel
      Pages 89-116

    3. Design for Values and Operator Roles in Sociotechnical System s

      • Maarten Franssen
      Pages 117-149

    4. Design for Values and the Definition , Specification , and Operationalization of Values

      • Peter Kroes, Ibo van de Poel
      Pages 151-178

    5. Design Methods in Design for Values

      • Pieter E. Vermaas, Paul Hekkert, Noëmi Manders-Huits, Nynke Tromp
      Pages 179-201

    6. Emotion s in Design for Values

      • Pieter M. A. Desmet, Sabine Roeser
      Pages 203-219

    7. Human Capabilities in Design for Values

      • Ilse Oosterlaken
      Pages 221-250

    8. Mediation in Design for Values

      • A. Spahn
      Pages 251-266

    9. Modeling for Design for Values

      • Sjoerd D. Zwart
      Pages 267-299

  5. Values

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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    2. Design for the Values of Accountability and Transparency

      • Joris Hulstijn, Brigitte Burgemeestre
      Pages 303-333

    3. Design for the Values of Democracy and Justice

      • Auke Pols, Andreas Spahn
      Pages 335-363

    4. Design for the Value of Human Well-Being

      • Philip Brey
      Pages 365-382

    5. Design for the Value of Inclusiveness

      • Simeon Keates
      Pages 383-402
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About this book

This handbook enumerates every aspect of incorporating moral and societal values into technology design, reflects the fact that the latter has moved on from strict functionality to become sensitive to moral and social values such as sustainability and accountability. Aimed at a broad readership that includes ethicists, policy makers and designers themselves, it proffers a detailed survey of how technological, and institutional, design must now reflect awareness of ethical factors such as sustainability, human well-being, privacy, democracy and justice, inclusivity, trust, accountability, and responsibility (both social and environmental). Edited by a trio of highly experienced academic philosophers with a specialized interest in the ethical dimensions of technology and human creativity, this syncretic handbook collates an array of published material and offers a studied, practical introduction to the field. The volume addresses myriad aspects at the intersection of technology design and ethics, enabling designers to adopt a constructive approach in anticipating, preventing, and resolving societal and ethical issues affecting their work. It covers underlying theory; discrete values such as democracy, human well-being, sustainability and justice; and application domains themselves, which include architecture, bio- and nanotechnology, and military hardware. As the first exhaustive survey of a field whose importance is characterized by almost exponential growth, it represents a compelling addition to a formerly atomized literature. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jeroen van den Hoven, Pieter E. Vermaas, Ibo van de Poel

About the editors

Jeroen van den Hoven is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at Delft University of Technology, Scientific Director of the 3Technical University Centre of Ethics and Technology (3TU Centre) (www.ethicsandtechnology.eu) and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technology of Policy and Management. He is Editor in Chief of Ethics and Information Technology (Springer) and Founding Chair of the CEPE conference (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry). He has published numerous articles on Ethics and Information Technology. An edited volume Information Technology and Moral Philosophy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008 (hardcover) and 2009 (paperback). He co-authored a book (with Dean Cocking) entitled Evil On Line that will be published by Wiley Blackwell in 2013. An edited collection (with Thomas Pogge, Seumas Miller) entitled The Design Turn in Applied Ethics will appear with Cambridge University Press in 2012. Van den Hoven was the winner of the 2009 World Technology Award in the category Ethics and received the IFIP Namur Award for Society and Information Technology.


Ibo van de Poel is AvL Professor in Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on engineering ethics, the moral acceptability of technological risks, values and engineering design, moral responsibility in research networks and ethics of new emerging technologies like nanotechnology. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences (Elsevier, 2009), Philosophy and Engineering (Springer, 2010), Moral Responsibility. Beyond Free Will And Determinism (Springer, 2011) and co-author of Ethics, Engineering and Technology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He has a VICI grant for his research proposal New Technologies as Social Experiments: Conditions for Morally Responsible Experimentation from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).


Pi

eter E. Vermaas is senior researcher at the Philosophy Department of Delft University of Technology. He does research on engineering and design, and published extensively on the notion of technical functions in philosophy and engineering, the metaphysics of technical artefacts and on engineering design methods. He published monographs on design, use and functions (Houkes and Vermaas (2010) Technical Functions, Springer) and on general philosophy of technology (Vermaas, Kroes, van de Poel, Franssen and Houkes (2011) A Philosophy of Technology, Morgan & Claypool). He is currently editor of the journal Philosophy of Technology and editor-in-chief of the book series Philosophy of Engineering and Technology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design

  • Book Subtitle: Sources, Theory, Values and Application Domains

  • Editors: Jeroen van den Hoven, Pieter E. Vermaas, Ibo van de Poel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6970-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6969-4Published: 11 June 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6970-0Published: 27 May 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 871

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Design, general, R & D/Technology Policy

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