Socially Disruptive Technologies, Contextual Integrity, and Conservatism About Moral Change

Ibo van de Poel*

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Abstract

This commentary is a response to Contextual Integrity as a General Conceptual Tool for Evaluating Technological Change by Elizabeth O’Neill (Philosophy & Technology (2022)). It argues that while contextual integrity (CI) might be an useful addition to the toolkit of approaches for ethical technology assessment, a CI approach might not be able to uncover all morally relevant impacts of technological change. Moreover, the inherent conservatism of a CI approach might be problematic in cases in which we encounter new kinds of morally problematic situations, such as climate change, or when technology reinforces historically grown injustices.
Original languageEnglish
Article number82
JournalPhilosophy and Technology
Volume35
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Contextual integrity
  • Disruptive technologies
  • Ethics
  • Technological change
  • Technomoral change
  • Value change

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