Relational Ethics in Technological Societies Workshop

Publics, corporate leaders, workers, educators and politicians around the world are actively asking what it means to live responsibly and pursue human flourishing in contexts of advanced technological societies. Their urgent concerns, visions, and activities make up the broad area of the ethics of science and technology.

Increasingly, scholars who study the interface of science, technology and society are recognizing that urgent questions of technology ethics and governance demand alternative frameworks, institutions, and training than the current set on offer. They turn attention to how certain mainstream ethics initiatives contribute to limit and instrumentalise the ethics of innovation.

This workshop aims to better understand the problem of the closing down of ethics and to open it back up. It brings together researchers working on innovative approaches to ethics and governance who combine fundamental research in pluralistic, relational ethics in contexts of technological societies with interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and inter-sector collaboration.