---
_id: '48603'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: '<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Today, a major technological trend
    is the increasing focus on the person: technical systems personalize, customize,
    and tailor to the person in both beneficial and troubling ways. This trend has
    moved beyond the realm of commerce and has become a matter of public governance,
    where systems for citizen risk scoring, predictive policing, and social credit
    scores proliferate. What these systems have in common is that they may target
    the person and her ethical and political dispositions, her virtues. Virtue ethics
    is the most appropriate approach for evaluating the impacts of these new systems,
    which has translated in a revival of talk about virtue in technology ethics. Yet,
    the focus on individual dispositions has rightly been criticized for lacking a
    concern with the political collective and institutional structures. This paper
    advocates a new direction of research into civic virtue, which is situated in
    between personal dispositions and structures of governance. First, it surveys
    the discourse on virtue ethics of technology, emphasizing its neglect of the political
    dimension of impacts of emerging technologies. Second, it presents a pluralist
    conception of civic virtue that enables us to scrutinize the impact of technology
    on civic virtue on three different levels of reciprocal reputation building, the
    cultivation of internal goods, and excellence in the public sphere. Third, it
    illustrates the benefits of this conceptions by discussing some paradigmatic examples
    of emerging technologies that aim to cultivate civic virtue.</jats:p>'
article_number: '71'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Wessel
  full_name: Reijers, Wessel
  id: '102524'
  last_name: Reijers
  orcid: 0000-0003-2505-1587
citation:
  ama: Reijers W. Technology and Civic Virtue. <i>Philosophy &#38; Technology</i>.
    2023;36(4). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w">10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w</a>
  apa: Reijers, W. (2023). Technology and Civic Virtue. <i>Philosophy &#38; Technology</i>,
    <i>36</i>(4), Article 71. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w">https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Reijers_2023, title={Technology and Civic Virtue}, volume={36},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w">10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w</a>},
    number={471}, journal={Philosophy &#38; Technology}, publisher={Springer Science
    and Business Media LLC}, author={Reijers, Wessel}, year={2023} }'
  chicago: Reijers, Wessel. “Technology and Civic Virtue.” <i>Philosophy &#38; Technology</i>
    36, no. 4 (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w">https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w</a>.
  ieee: 'W. Reijers, “Technology and Civic Virtue,” <i>Philosophy &#38; Technology</i>,
    vol. 36, no. 4, Art. no. 71, 2023, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w">10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w</a>.'
  mla: Reijers, Wessel. “Technology and Civic Virtue.” <i>Philosophy &#38; Technology</i>,
    vol. 36, no. 4, 71, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w">10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w</a>.
  short: W. Reijers, Philosophy &#38; Technology 36 (2023).
date_created: 2023-11-03T13:36:40Z
date_updated: 2025-09-22T10:03:57Z
department:
- _id: '11'
doi: 10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w
intvolume: '        36'
issue: '4'
keyword:
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-023-00669-w
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '109'
  name: 'TRR 318: TRR 318 - Erklärbarkeit konstruieren'
- _id: '370'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP B06: Ethik und Normativität der erklärbaren KI'
publication: Philosophy & Technology
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2210-5433
  - 2210-5441
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Technology and Civic Virtue
type: journal_article
user_id: '102524'
volume: 36
year: '2023'
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