Technologische vernieuwing en vernieuwing van ethiek en recht

Technology is developing at an enormous speed. How should law and ethics respond to technological innovations? In this inaugural lecture, I do not deliver conclusive substantial answers to various ethical and legal questions arising in the wake of the many technological innovations that we have witnessed over the last decades. Instead, I concentrate on three general dimensions of ethi-cal and legal responses to technological innovations that tend to impede an open and future-oriented attitude towards technology: a tendency to focus on the technology rather than on the practices and routines changed by technology, a tendency for professional conservatism of people engaged in law and ethics, and a negativist approach of technology inherent to Europe-an culture. I explain and illustrate these tendencies and show the often unin-tended impacts they may have for the actual substantial legal and ethical responses to technological innovations.

ISBN:9789400010185

Publication year:2019