The Goodness and Kindhood of Artefacts

One of the peculiar features of our discourse with respect to technical artefacts is its richly evaluative and normative character. We speak routinely of good alarm clocks and poor corkscrews and of functioning mobile phones and malfunctioning TV sets. El

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Philosophy of Engineering and Technology VOLUME 9

Editor-in-chief Pieter Vermaas, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Editors David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Ibo van de Poel, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Editorial advisory board Philip Brey, Twente University, the Netherlands. Louis Bucciarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Paul Durbin, University of Delaware, U.S.A. Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire & University of Oxford, U.K. Jun Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan. Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Vincent F. Hendricks, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Columbia University, U.S.A. Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Billy V. Koen, University of Texas, U.S.A. Peter Kroes, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Sylvain Lavelle, ICAM-Polytechnicum, France. Michael Lynch, Cornell University, U.S.A. Anthonie Meijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Sir Duncan Michael, Ove Arup Foundation, U.K. Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A. Helen Nissenbaum, New York University, U.S.A. Alfred Nordmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Joseph Pitt, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University, U.S.A. Jon A. Schmidt, Burns & McDonnell, U.S.A. Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

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Norms in Technology

Editors Marc J. de Vries Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Sven Ove Hansson Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden

Anthonie W.M. Meijers Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands

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