Historical Examples: Brain Death
Written by Ibo van de Poel In 1968 an ad hoc committee of the Harvard Medical School proposed criteria for brain death. Keulartz et al. (2002: 16) describe this introduction of the notion of ‘brain death’ as a redefinition of the notion of death with far-reaching...
Historical Examples: Birth Control Pill
Written by: Ibo van de Poel An often discussed example of value change is the change in sexual morality due to the introduction of the birth control pill. This is often seen as a typical example of a value or moral change. For example, van der Burg (2003: 14)...
fPET 2023 reviews by Dennis Gedge and Sarah Junaid
Dennis Gedge and Sarah Junaid, both engineers, have attended fPET 2023 and wrote a review of this conference. The reviews discuss the special track at fPET 2023 on value change, which was a collaboration between fPET and the ERC project 'Design for Changing Values'....
Book on interdisciplinary value theory by Steffen Steinert is out
The book on interdisciplinary value theory by Steffen Steinert is out. The book was written as part of the ValueChange project and it offers an interdisciplinary introduction to value theory. It reviews how researchers in four academic disciplines – psychology,...
How to deal with value change as a designer/engineer? Read it in our white paper
Designing for values – like well-being, justice and transparency – has been gaining increasing popularity in the past decades. But here is a fundamental challenge: although values are relatively stable, they do sometimes change over time. What types of value change exist, and how can engineers and designers deal with them? These are the main questions that we address in a white paper.
Call for participation for workshop on ‘Corpus Analysis, Conceptual Change, and Socially Disruptive Technologies’
This workshop aims to establish a community of philosophers and cognitive scientists who are interested in using corpus linguistics to investigate concept and value change in light of conceptually disruptive technologies. There is a limited number of open slots...
NWO take-off grant for further development of ValueMonitor
Ibo van de Poel and Tristan de Wildt have received a NWO take-off grant, allowing them to further develop ValueMonitor. ValueMonitor is a text-mining tool that can systematically identify gaps among values in technologies voiced in society, policy, and research and...
Call for participation for workshop on ‘ValueMonitor, a tool for empirical investigations of values and value change in text corpora’
We invite you to a one-day workshop to get familiarized with ValueMonitor. ValueMonitor is an easy-to-use tool for empirical investigations of values and value change in text corpora (e.g., scientific articles, newspaper articles). It will take place on March 10th, 2023, from 9.30 to 16.30, in Delft. The number of places for the workshop is limited to ensure that we can help you effectively with the usage of the tool. Registration closes on January 20th and can be done by sending an email to ValueMonitor@valuechange.eu.
Special issue of Prometheus on designing for value change
Prometheus has just published a special issue on Designing for value change, with contributions from different team members as well as others. See here.