Mobility and Infrastructures

Ethics of transportation

Filippo Santoni de Sio is a leading scholar in the ethics of automated driving. He has promoted the establishment of ethics of transportation as an independent branch of applied ethics. He is an advisor of the UNECE Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1)  

Santoni de Sio, F. The European Commission report on ethics of connected and automated vehicles and the future of ethics of transportation. Ethics and Information Technology, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09609-8

Santoni de Sio, F.  Killing by Autonomous Vehicles and the Legal Doctrine of Necessity. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20: 411. 2017.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9780-7


Philosophy of architecture

Pieter Vermaas analyses design reasoning and design for values in the field of architecture.

  • Nagenborg, M., T. Stone, M. González Woge and P.E. Vermaas (eds.) (2021) Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies (Dordrecht: Springer).
  • Vermaas, P.E., and S. Eloy (2021) Shape Grammar Systems as a Technology for Flexible Design for Values in Cities: Giving Architectural Design to Inhabitants, in M. Nagenborg, T. Stone, M. González Woge and P.E. Vermaas (eds.) Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies (Dordrecht: Springer), pp. 225-252.
  • Eloy, S., P.E. Vermaas and M. Andrade (2017) The Quality of Designs by Shape Grammar Systems and Architects: A Comparative Test on Refurbishing Lisbon’s Rabo-de-Bacalhau Apartments, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 34, 271–294.