The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts

1. Introduction: The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts
Peter Kroes, Peter-Paul Verbeek

2. Agency in Humans and in Artifacts: A Contested Discourse
Carl Mitcham

3. Towards a Post-human Intra-actional Account of Sociomaterial Agency (and Morality)
Lucas D. Introna

4. Which Came First, the Doer or the Deed?
F. Allan Hanson

5. Some Misunderstandings About the Moral Significance of Technology
Peter-Paul Verbeek

6. “Guns Don’t Kill, People Kill”; Values in and/or Around Technologies
Joseph C. Pitt

7. Can Technology Embody Values?
Ibo Poel, Peter Kroes

8. From Moral Agents to Moral Factors: The Structural Ethics Approach
Philip Brey

9. Artefactual Agency and Artefactual Moral Agency
Deborah G. Johnson, Merel Noorman

10. Artefacts, Agency, and Action Schemes
Christian F. R. Illies, Anthonie Meijers

11. Artificial Agents and Their Moral Nature
Luciano Floridi

12. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly… and the Poor: Instrumental and Non-instrumental Value of Artefacts
Maarten Franssen

13. Values in Chemistry and Engineering
Sven Ove Hansson

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Engineering, general, Political Philosophy