Growing Moral Relations: Critique of Moral Status Ascription - Paperback

by M. Coeckelbergh (Author)

New scientific and technological developments challenge us to reconsider our moral world order. This book offers an original philosophical approach to this issue: it makes a distinctive contribution to the development of a relational approach to moral status by re-defining the problem in a social and phenomenological way.

Author Biography

MARK COECKELBERGH teaches philosophy at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and is member of the 3TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology. He is the author of Liberation and Passion (2002), The Metaphysics of Autonomy (2004), Imagination and Principles (2007), and numerous journal articles on ethics, including ethics of information technology and robotics, medical ethics, and environmental ethics.