Project

NWO Gravitation program on Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDIT).

The overall aim of the research programme is to develop a comprehensive philosophical understanding of the socially disruptive technologies (SDTs) of the 21st century, and in particular their challenge to the very concepts and values that we normally appeal to in our moral thinking. These concepts and values form the basis of our current moral, political, and anthropological order. There is an urgency to this aim, as we need to develop new moral frameworks to guide these technologies for the betterment of humanity.

The Wageningen team focusses on the Nature research line of the program, which is coordinated by Vincent Blok, and involves several PhD projects in the philosophy of synthetic biology and biomimicry (https://www.esdit.nl/about-esdit/ for more information) .

see www.vincentblok.nl for more projects.