LED Lighting Across Borders: Exploring the plea for darkness and value-sensitive design with Libbrecht’s comparative philosophy model

Janssens, Els; Stone, T.W.; Yu, X.; Bombaerts, Gunter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24021-9_10

LED Lighting Across Borders

Title

LED Lighting Across Borders: Exploring the plea for darkness and value-sensitive design with Libbrecht’s comparative philosophy model

Author

Janssens, Els (School of Comparative Philosophy)
Stone, T.W. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology)
Yu, X. (Dalian University of Technology)
Bombaerts, Gunter (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Date

2020

Abstract

This chapter discusses how a comparative philosophical model can contribute to both substantive and procedural values in energy policy. We discuss the substantive values in the mainstream light-emitting diodes (LEDs) debate and Taylor Stone's alternative plea for darkness. We also explore Value Sensitive Design as a procedural approach. We conclude that the comparative philosophical model of Ulrich Libbrecht can appropriately broaden the set of substantive values used in VSD. We discuss the values of 'by-itself-so' and 'alter-intentionality', which come with the unforeseen necessity of accepting elements from other worldviews and of normativity in the procedural VSD approach.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24021-9_10

Publisher

Springer

ISBN

978-3-030-24020-2

Source

Energy Justice Across Borders

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