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Philosophy of Science and Technology, Science and Technology Studies (STS)

update:2020-06-16
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My research area is mainly phenomenology, philosophy of technology, and applied ethics (engineering ethics etc.). Technological Artifacts mediate human activities. So designing artifacts is in itself an ethical behavior. Analysing the ontological structure of the artifacts, describing the epistemological propcess of desingning activities, evaluating the social and ethical influence of artifacts are main issues in philosophy of technology. On the basis of such philosophical investigations, we can develope ethical studies concerining how engineerss, companies can recognize ethical issues in a networks of meanings , how they can make ethical decision among engineers and users.

Targeted Application(s)/Industry

I hope to conduct cooperative research on ethical education of engineers, as well as on human-machine interaction.

Researchers

Graduate School of Arts and Letters

NAOE Kiyotaka , Professor
PhD

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