Giovanni Prins
Profile
Giovanni Prins is a PhD candidate at the University of Twente. His research focuses on developing new ethical methods for assessing the disruptive impact of emerging technologies on human wellbeing, with particular attention to marginalised and disadvantaged groups. He critically examines how dominant approaches in the ethics of technology too often presuppose a generic individual with uniform needs and capabilities as the subject of ethical analysis.
His research argues that the ethics of technology requires methods and approaches that give a central place to human differences and diversity, such as social, psychological and physiological differences. Doing so allows ethicists to identify and analyse ethical issues in relation to different individuals and groups, rather than ‘the human being’ in general.
Drawing on the capability approach, Giovanni’s work investigates how Socially Disruptive Technologies (SDTs) fundamentally reshape what people are actually able to be and do, and how these disruptions can exacerbate existing structural inequalities. His research aims to develop a context-sensitive evaluative framework for assessing the differential and disruptive impact of technology on individuals that is sensitive to human diversity and people’s diverse capabilities.
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