Department of (Social-)Ethics
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Welcome to the Department of (Social) Ethics!
We explore ethical questions in the interplay between society and technology. We research how new technologies change social life foms and institutions and how to responsibly shape these changes. By using empirical and analytical-hermeneutic methods we evaluate social norms or concepts. We examine how they can provide orientation or need to be innovated and rethought. By this we develop options for behavior and action for the social dealing with new technologies.
© Gregor Hübl / University of Bonn
Team
© Matthias Braun
Projects
© Matthias Braun
Publications
© Matthias Braun
Approach
© Social Ethics Group
Events and Outreach
© Gregor Hübl / University of Bonn
Teaching
Ethics und Governance of emerging technologies
Here you will soon learn more about the research hub "ethics and governance of emerging technologies""
News
Impressions from Kinderuni 2025
On 3 February 2025, the moment we had all been waiting for finally arrived! Around 500 children's university students and 300 parents attended the highly anticipated lecture “Data protection and thieves on the Internet”
Bytes the Dust: Normative Notions in Decommissioning Digital Doppelgängers
New commentary by Andrew J. Barnhart, Giuseppe Comerci and Matthias Braun in AJOB
Naming the Ungrieved
New article by Hannah Bleher and Denise Wallat
Beyond Pathology: Bringing the Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability to Neuroethics and Mental Health Conditions
New commentary by Andrew J. Barnhart in AJOB Neuroscience
