Research
Many current technological developments, such as autonomous driving, AI-assisted medical diagnoses or robots designed to help educate children demonstrate the potential to serve a greater cause, but also raise societal and ethical concerns. By explicating normative implications of technologies, Ethics of Technology serves as a rational assessment for deciding how to design, regulate, adopt and cope with the (latest) technological advancements.
Main focus
Ethical evaluations need sound philosophical reflections of technologies. Philosophy of Technology analyses human-technology relations in concrete applications, uncovers forms of subjectification and objectification of typical socio-technical configurations, and exposes epistemological aspects that are intertwined with normative questions (e.g. explainable AI). Philosophy of Technology also explores different concepts of technology and the ongoing technisation of the modern world.
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Publications
2024
S. Alpsancar, in: R. Adolphi, S. Alpsancar, S. Hahn, M. Kettner (Eds.), Philosophische Digitalisierungsforschung Verantwortung, Verständigung, Vernunft, Macht, transcript, Bielefeld, 2024, pp. 55–113.
S. Alpsancar, T. Matzner, M. Philippi, in: Smart Ethics in the Digital World: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2024. 21th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT, Universidad de La Rioja, 2024, pp. 31–35.
W. Reijers, T. Matzner, S. Alpsancar, M. Philippi, in: Smart Ethics in the Digital World: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2024. 21th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT. Universidad de La Rioja, 2024., Longrono, 2024.
2023
S. Alpsancar, A. Friedrich, P. Gehring, C. Hubig, A. Kaminski, A. Nordmann, eds., Faktor Mensch. Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie 2023, Nomos, Baden Baden, 2023.
S. Alpsancar, in: International Conference on Computer Ethics 2023, 2023, pp. 1--17.
J. Pfeiffer, J. Gutschow, C. Haas, F. Möslein, O. Maspfuhl, F. Borgers, S. Alpsancar, Business & Information Systems Engineering (2023).
2022
2021
S. Alpsancar, in: S. Böschen, A. Grunwald, B.-J. Krings, C. Rösch (Eds.), Technikfolgenabschätzung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis, 1st ed., Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2021, pp. 229–239.
S. Alpsancar, in: F. Sprenger (Ed.), Autonome Autos – Die Zukunft des Verkehrs und die Dispositive der Mobilität, 1st ed., transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2021, pp. 373–397.
2019
S. Alpsancar, in: K. Liggieri, O. Müller (Eds.), Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion: Handbuch zu Geschichte – Kultur – Ethik, J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 2019, pp. 291–293.
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