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- Unique interdisciplinary research on Social Technology Studies and Philosophy of Technology
- New model of responsibility for technology on Life Ethics / Virtue Ethics
- Brings Ethics back into Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
- Combines classical ethicists with the social role of technologies
- Features a case study on intelligent cars
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 4)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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, Department of Philosophy, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
Katinka Waelbers
About the author
Katinka Waelbers is a researcher at the philosophy department at the Maastricht University. Her research interests range broadly in bio-ethics, philosophy of technology, environmental philosophy, and political philosophy. She studied Science & Policy (BSc and MSc) and Philosophy (Ba and MSc) at the Utrecht University. She participated in multiple research projects in bio-ethics, environmental ethics, and ethics of technology at the Utrecht University (1998-2005). In 2005, she decided to focus on the philosophy of technology and she went to the University of Twente. There, her work focused on responsibility and future technologies such as nano-technology, IT, and the intelligent car of the future. Since november 2010, she is employed at the Maastricht University to reflect about the future techno-social and techno-moral change. She authored multiple articles and reports, and published several books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Doing Good with Technologies:
Book Subtitle: Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies
Authors: Katinka Waelbers
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1640-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1639-1Published: 29 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3668-9Published: 03 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1640-7Published: 27 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 152
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences