# Ethics of Technology

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Category: Philosophy
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:00.159Z
Tags: philosophy, ethics, technology

## Summary

The philosophy of technology is the philosophical investigation of artefacts, systems, and the practices they sustain. It is younger than most of philosophy and older than most of computing — its modern form took shape in the mid-20th century, when Heidegger, Ellul, and Mumford each independently concluded that the technological systems of industrial modernity had begun to reshape the humans inside them. Key sections include: Ethics of Technology.; Opening The question concerning technology.; Chapter I Heidegger on enframing.; Chapter II Ellul on technique.; Chapter III Mumford on the megamachine.; Chapter IV Postman and media ecology.; Chapter V Do artefacts have politics?; Chapter VI Borgmann on the device paradigm.; Chapter VII Verbeek and post-phenomenology.; Chapter VIII Floridi on the infosphere..

## Slide Outline

1. Ethics of Technology.
2. Opening The question concerning technology.
3. Chapter I Heidegger on enframing.
4. Chapter II Ellul on technique.
5. Chapter III Mumford on the megamachine.
6. Chapter IV Postman and media ecology.
7. Chapter V Do artefacts have politics?
8. Chapter VI Borgmann on the device paradigm.
9. Chapter VII Verbeek and post-phenomenology.
10. Chapter VIII Floridi on the infosphere.
11. Chapter IX Bostrom on superintelligence.
12. Chapter X Russell on alignment.
13. Chapter XI The capability-skeptical view.
14. Chapter XII Algorithmic bias.
15. Chapter XIII Zuboff and surveillance capitalism.
16. Chapter XIV Surveillance ethics.
17. Chapter XV Privacy.
18. Chapter XVI Autonomous vehicles and the trolley problem.
19. Chapter XVII Biotech ethics.
20. Chapter XVIII Climate technology and the engineering question.
21. Chapter XIX Long-termism and its critics.
22. Chapter XX-pre Latour and actor-networks.
23. Chapter XX-bis Frontier-AI policy in 2026.
24. Chapter XX-ter Feminist and care ethics of technology.
25. Chapter XX-quint Engineering ethics in practice.
26. Chapter XX-sex Where the field is going.
27. Chapter XX The shelf.
28. Chapter XXI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXII What the field has learned.
30. Colophon

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