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  • Value Sensitive Design
  • Applied Ethics

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  • Value Sensitive Design (VSD) faces challenges in embodying values in high-tech products.
  • Pluralistic value selection in collective decision-making remains a key VSD problem.
  • Existing ethical theories struggle with technological design for well-being in democracies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address VSD's practical application challenges stemming from its lack of a specific ethical theory.
  • To propose Amartya Sen's capability approach as a solution to VSD's ethical dilemmas.
  • To enhance VSD's ethical-democratic import for welfare-oriented technological design.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a humanitarian cargo drone study as a case example.
  • Analyzed limitations of mainstream ethical approaches in VSD.
  • Advocated for a procedural ethics stance and deliberative approach from Sen's capability approach.

Main Results:

  • Sen's capability approach provides a procedural-deliberative framework for objective, impartial value selection.
  • This approach effectively handles human diversity, value pluralism, and disagreements in complex democracies.
  • The framework is suitable for validating welfare-oriented technological design in real-world social contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Refining VSD with a capability-based procedural ethics approach enhances concern for democracy and social justice.
  • This integration preserves essential scientific-technical standards for high-tech product development.
  • The approach facilitates the creation of ethically and socially justified, highly functional technologies.