Essai

Critique de l’éthique au futur

Problématiser l’éthique face aux promesses technoscientifiques

Alain Loute

This article takes technoscientific promises as its subject for ethical reflection. These promises constitute discursive strategies aimed at capturing resources and influencing public policy and investment strategies. The article begins by justifying the importance for the ethics of technology to problematize itself and learn from its current impotence based on a study of its relationship to these promises. Next, different ethical positions are analysed according to how they problematize their relationship to these promises. Gilbert Hottois’ philosophical reading of transhumanism, as well as robot ethics, are examples of approaches that...