Technoethics: Christian morality and the civilization of machines

Technoethics: Christian morality and the civilization of machines. José María Galván
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José María Galván. Pamplona, January 20, 2026.

José María Galván was born in Cádiz in 1954. He graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1977). He worked as a surgeon at the San Carlos Hospital of the School Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Navarra (1983). He has been Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the School Theology of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome) since 1986. He is Full Professor of Moral Theology and has been director department Moral Theology at the same university; in this area Technoethics since 2007. His areas of interest are: Trinity, Divine Attributes, Pneumatology, Theological Anthropology, "Art and Aesthetics," and Technoethics.

Founding academic of the Accademia Romana delle Arti, he has taught various courses on aesthetics since 1998. In the field of technoethics, he collaborates with the department the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa and with the committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), participating as speaker several technoethics workshops at ICRA (lecture on Robotics and Automation). Among many other activities, he has also participated in two technoethics conferences held at Waseda University (Tokyo) and in the last two conferences of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) in Barcelona and Buenos Aires. His complete curriculum vitae can be found at http://bib26.pusc.it/teo/p_galvan/curriculum.pdf.

summary

The development of technology and its exponential growth raise an urgent ethical question. The abundant bibliography this topic often topic an adequate epistemological foundation and is frequently reduced to lists of negative effects and specific proposals. On other occasions, the solutions proposed derive directly from transhumanist or posthumanist thinking. The purpose this intervention is to propose the concept of "symbolic transfer," based on Christian anthropology, as a methodological tool that allows for the systematization of the assessment of technological products.