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Ethics of Technology
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.
Biometric Identification Technology Ethics (BITE)
BITE aims to prompt research and to launch a public debate on bioethics of biometric technology. The number of biometric devices in use in Europe has jumped from 8,550 in 1996 to more than to 150,000 in 2004 and biometric industries revenues are expected to more than triple in the next two years. “Biometrics seem headed for dramatic growth in the next few years. But calm, public discussion of their benefits and drawbacks has been lamentably lacking” (The Economist, Prepare to be scanned, Monday December 8th 2003). The BITE project aims to launch such a discussion.
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)
The purpose of CAPPE is to conduct ground-breaking research, provide policy input and promote community discussion and professional dialogue in relation to these and other important and pressing matters of public and political concern. CAPPE constitutes the largest concentration of philosophers working on applied philosophy and public ethics in Australia, and one of the largest such concentrations in the international philosophical community.
The Centre also brings together the complementary strengths of both the former Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics (CPAE), Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the former Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues (CPPI), University of Melbourne (UM) as well as extensive industry/professional contacts.
http://www.cappe.edu.au/index.htm
Computer Ethics Institute (CEI)
The Computer Ethics Institute (CEI) is the most prominent organization dedicated toward the promotion of ethical computer use in the United States. Its primary function is to study, publicize, and coordinate the intersection of information technology innovations, business interests, regulations and other public policies, and ethics. The organization was founded in 1985 by the Brookings Institution, IBM, the Washington Consulting Group, and the Washington Theological Consortium, and was originally known as the Coalition for Computer Ethics. In 1992, the coalition changed its name and incorporated as a research, education, and policy study group.
CEI includes among its ranks members of the various computer science and information technology professions, corporate representatives, industry organizations, and academic and public policy groups. Thus, CEI positions itself as a forum in which diverse interests can pool their knowledge and resources to identify and remedy ethical difficulties that arise along with the development and proliferation of advanced computer technology.
One of the organization's hallmarks is its "Ten Commandments for Computer Ethics"
http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/247/Computer-Ethics-Institute.html
Computer Ethics
With the freedom of the Internet has come a host of new ethical issues. This site is devoted to providing a basic understanding of computer ethics to the Internet users of tomorrow, with the hope that they will make informed and moral decisions throughout their careers.
http://library.thinkquest.org/26658/
Computer Ethics
http://www.emr.org/linksUCE.html
Ethics Updates
Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/index.asp
Ethicsweb.ca Computer Ethics site
Ethicsweb is administered and developed by Chris MacDonald "Applied Ethics Resources on WWW" was developed, funded, and maintained for nearly a decade as a project of the
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics.
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/computer/
International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE)
This is an academic website on information ethics. It is a platform for exchanging information about worldwide teaching and research in our field. It gives the opportunity to meet each other. It provides news on ongoing activities by different kinds of organizations. And it is free. The success of this website depends on the will of the people interested in this subject to share their knowledge with others.
The ICIE was created in 1999 by Rafael Capurro (Hochschule der Medien - Stuttgart Media University, Germany). It started as a small group of friends and colleagues but developed soon into an international and intercultural platform with by now more than 220 members from all over the world. In 2001 a cooperation agreement was set up with the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany) which provided a new design of the web site as well as management support. Since 2002 ICIE is taken care also by Thomas Hausmanninger (University of Augsburg, Germany). Karsten Weber (Viadrina University, Germany) and Michael Nagenborg (Karlsruhe, Germany) joined us in 2005. Furthermore ICIE organises symposia since 2001/2002 and publishes a book series in cooperation with W. Fink Verlag, Munich-Paderborn (Germany). Since 2004 ICIE publishes the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE)
New York University Department of Culture and Communications
This website is for researchers, practitioners, and public interest advocates who understand that information and communications technologies are a crucial medium for asserting social, political, and moral values such as freedom, autonomy, justice, privacy, and democracy.
How do we ensure a place for values, alongside technical standards such as speed, efficiency, and reliability, as criteria by which we judge quality and acceptability of computer and information systems and new media? How do values such as privacy, autonomy, democracy, and social justice become integral to conception, design, and development, not merely retrofitted after completion?
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/valuesindesign/index.html
Texas Tech University National Institute of Engineering Ethics (NIEE)
In October 2001, with approvals of the NIEE Board of Directors and the Texas Tech University Board of Regents, the Presidents of NIEE and TTU signed an agreement for Texas Tech University (TTU) to provide a permanent home and assume financial, administrative, management and leadership responsibilities of the Institute..
Viewed as a cooperative effort among many engineering organizations with potential for far-reaching influence and impact, NIEE can and should bridge the various disciplines within the engineering profession.
University Commitment to NIEE: In order to assure the success of NIEE, in 2001, Texas Tech President and Engineering Dean jointly made a five-year commitment of major funding for NIEE operating and development efforts. Recently, in 2005, Texas Tech Provost William Marcy extended and significantly increased the university commitment and made it more permanent. This recent commitment is to encourage and support engineering ethics by providing funds to hire a full time director of NIEE. This position is part of the university Quality Enhancement Plan.
Mission and Purpose: The name shall remain the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (also known as the Institute) and it will remain a recognizable entity with an unchanged purpose within the non-profit status of the University. The mission and purpose of NIEE remains unchanged with this transition, but the Institute has changed from a “dues-paying membership type” organization to a “ethics programs and projects type” organization where individuals, companies, universities, and engineering societies can support projects that they view important to the profession, with either time or funding or both.
http://www.niee.org/murdoughCenter/
Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)
Promotes ethical science, design and technology, based on the principles of openness, accountability, peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability, is an independent UK-based membership organisation of about 850 natural and social scientists, engineers, IT professionals and architects, carries out research, education, and lobbying centred around the military, environmental and political aspects of science, design and technology and provides a support network for ethically-concerned professionals in these fields
Online Ethics Centre
As part of the new Engineering Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering, the mission of the Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering continues to be to provide engineers and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding of responsible research and practice in engineering.
The site provides readily accessible literature and information, case studies and references, and discussion groups on ethics in engineering and science. It focuses on problems that arise in and for the work life of engineers and scientists. It serves practitioners, educators and students, and individuals interested in professional and research ethics.
http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/about.aspx
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics was established in 2002 with the support of the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education of Japan. It is an integral part of the Philosophy faculty of Oxford University, one of the great centres of academic excellence in philosophical ethics.
We research a broad range of topics in practical ethics and moral philosophy. Core areas of expertise include: Bioethics especially cloning, stem cell research and genetics, Medical ethics, neuroethics, Just War Theory and terrorism, Business ethics and International justice
Our research program is highly interdisciplinary. We work closely with medical, law, politics, international relations and religious studies departments both within Oxford and internationally.
http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/index.htm
The Tavani Bibliography of Computing, Ethics and Responsibility
Is a bibliography on computer ethics sponsored by Mississippi State University.
http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/biblio/
Twente University Department of Philosophy
The CENTER includes all research in philosophy of technology performed by the Department of Philosophy, and any research at the intersection of philosophy and engineering done by other UT groups. The Department's research program (currently titled The Transformative Power of Technology) will be embedded in the Center. This program focuses on issues in philosophy and ethics of biomedical technology, philosophy and ethics of information and communication technology, technology ethics, philosophy of design, philosophy of engineering science and philosophy of art and technology. It contains two subprograms included in CTIT and BMTI and includes several projects, including a VIDI project “philosophy of engineering science,” a VENI project “Technology and the Matter of Morality,” and several NWO-funded projects in philosophy of technology, including a project in the philosophy of genomics.
http://www.gw.utwente.nl/wijsb/
University of Utrecht Institute of Ethics
All ethics research conducted by Utrecht University resides within the Ethics Institute. The key strengths of our applied research lie in issues relating to healthcare ethics, animal ethics, food ethics, sport ethics, and neuro ethics. On a more theoretical level, we have expertise in research into the methodology of applied ethics, ethics in relation to law, information technology, economics and public policy and the relationship between social sciences and ethics. Research projects are financed by Utrecht University, the Dutch government, advisory bodies, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), ZONMw, businesses and the European Union. Our research forms part of the research of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy.
http://www.ethics.uu.nl/index.html
TU Delft Department of Philosophy
The mission of the Philosophy section is to contribute to the professional and academic education of future engineers and to conduct research into philosophical problems related to modern technology and its impact on society.
The first part of the mission is accomplished by providing service teaching on foundational and normative issues for all engineering programs at the University of Technology Delft. The main topics of these courses are ethics and engineering, philosophy of science and technology, and argumentation and critical thinking. The Philosophy section has specifically been entrusted the task of developing and introducing required courses in ethics and engineering in all the university’s engineering programs by the board of directors of the university.
Through its research the Philosophy section aims to contribute to ongoing debates about the nature of modern technology and its role in society. Its research program focuses on foundational and methodological problems with respect to technology, e.g. the nature of technical artifacts and technological systems as socio-technical systems, and ethical problems in the design, development and implementation of technology, notably ethical problems related to technological risks.
http://www.fil.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=4271b860-f8b1-4ef6-b67f-7a9714f9d075&lang=en
Society, religion and technology project
The Society, Religion and Technology Project is a unit within the Church of Scotland which aims to promote analysis of the relationship between science, technology, religion and ethics, to encourage discussion between professionals in the various fields involved and the general public, and to disseminate its own views on the subject. This site contains the texts of many of the Project’s reports and press releases on such matters of public concern as genetic modification, nuclear energy, cloning and stem-cell research, and information relating to the Project’s 1999 publication "Engineering Genesis", produced in consultation with a group of social scientists, geneticists and ethicists. Also provided are links to other sites concerning the relationship of Christianity with both science and the environment.
http://www.srtp.org.uk/
The Society for Philosophy and Technology
The Society for Philosophy and Technology is an independent international organization that encourages, supports and facilitates philosophically significant considerations of technology. Founded in 1976, the Society is dedicated to the pluralistic exploration of technology, and welcomes a variety of philosophical and other disciplinary approaches in both its conferences and its publications. The Society publishes Techné (a bi-annual journal), the proceedings of its international conferences, and the quarterly SPT Newsletter.
http://www.pdcnet.org/member-spt.html
Links to literature
Journals:
Ends and Means:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/cpts/techno.hti
Techné : Research in philosophy and technology:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/
Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics:
http://www.cappe.edu.au/ajpae.htm
Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network:
http://www.ethical-perspectives.be/index.php
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: An International Forum: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-70-35553761-0,00.html
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/
Ethics and Behavior:
https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=1050-8422
The Journal of Clinical Ethics:
http://www.clinicalethics.com/
The Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-70-35621737-0,00.html
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy: Online Peer-Reviewed Journal of Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy:
http://www.jesp.org/policy.php
Journal of Global Ethics:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17449626.asp
Journal of Moral Philosophy: An International Journal of Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=106693
The Journal of Religious Ethics: