The Capability Approach, Technology and Design

ISBN 10: 9400799179 / ISBN 13: 9789400799172

Editore: Springer, 2014

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• Titolo: The Capability Approach, Technology and Design
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9400799179
• ISBN 13: 9789400799172
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This volume applies the capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen to technology and design. It features a balanced mixture of theoretical reflections and practical applications.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ilse Oosterlaken is one of the pioneering authors in the area of the capability approach, technology and design. She is co-founder of a thematic group on this topic within the Human Development & Capability Association (HDCA) and organizer of the very successful 2011 HDCA conference, with 'innovation' as its theme. Recently she was co-guest-editor of a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology on the capability approach.

Jeroen van den Hoven is scientific director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology and full professor in moral philosophy at TU Delft, specializing in the ethics of information technology. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Ethics and Information Technology. He is project leader of an NWO-funded multidisciplinary research project ‘Technology for Development – A Capability Approach’, in which co-editor Ilse Oosterlaken also works as one of the researchers.