La moralidad distribuida y la tecnología. Cómo las cosas nos hacen morales,

Abstract

In this paper, I contend that through technology people can simplify and solve moral tasks when they are in the presence of incomplete information and possess a diminished capacity to act morally. Many external things, usually inert from the moral point of view, can be transformed into what we will call moral mediators. Hence, not all of the moral tools are inside the head, many of them are shared and distributed in «external » objects and structures which function as ethical devices. Aiming at illustrating the intrigue of this ethical struggle between human beings and things, we will discuss the role of objects, structures, and technological artifacts by presenting them as moral carriers and mediators.