Giovanni Frigo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4868728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni Frigo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni |
| FAMILY NAME | Frigo |
| SIGNATURE | FRIGO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3121-2773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What renewable energy future should we strive for? Assessing renewable energy utopias through Sci-Fi and normative energy ethics
Ecological Virtuous Selves
Existing predominant approaches within virtue ethics (VE) assume humans as the typical agent and virtues as dispositions that pertain primarily to human–human interpersonal relationships. Similarly, the main accounts in the more specific area of environmental virtue ethics (EVE) tend to support weak anthropocentric positions, in which virtues are understood as excellent dispositions of human agents. In addition, however, several EVE authors have …
“Just” energy? An ecofeminist analysis and critique of a predominant conception of energy
Not enough (yet)
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship
The tenet-based approach to energy justice has seen substantial uptake over the past decade. Despite referring to philosophical terminology, energy justice scholars rarely engage rigorously with philosophical methods or ongoing debates. We argue this absence is challenging for two implicit goals that often arise in applications of the approach: to describe and capture ethical-issues surrounding energy systems and to normatively evaluate choices, …
Shallow vs. Deep Geoethics
At its inception, geoethics was envisioned as a type of professional ethics concerned with the moral implications of geoscientific research, applications, and practices. More recently, however, some scholars have proposed versions of geoethics as public and global ethics. To better understand these developments, this article considers the relationship between geoethics and environmental ethics by exploring different aspects of the human-nature re…
Designing for Care
This article introduces Designing for Care (D4C), a distinctive approach to project management and technological design informed by Care Ethics. We propose to conceptualize “care” as both the foundational value of D4C and as its guiding mid-level principle . As a value, care provides moral grounding. As a principle, it equips D4C with moral guidance to enact a caring process . The latter is made of a set of concrete, and often recursive, caring p…
Of social movements, human rights and electricity access
Energy and the Good Life
Access to an adequate level of uninterrupted, high quality, affordable, sufficient and useful energy services varies dramatically across countries. While some nations still experience energy poverty and struggle to fulfil basic needs, others consume well over what is considered sufficient to sustain wellbeing and human flourishing. These imbalances represent fundamental injustices that must be urgently addressed and resolved. Given current inequa…
Energy decisions within an applied ethics framework
Everywhere in the world, and in every period of human history, it has been common for energy decisions to be made in an ethically haphazard manner. With growing population pressure and increasing demand for energy, this approach is no longer viable. We believe that decision makers must include ethical considerations in energy decisions more routinely and systematically. To this end, we propose an applied ethics framework that accommodates princip…
Energy Ethics
This article is intended as a broad review of contributions from the humanities and social sciences to the theme of energy ethics. Although not exahustive and (unfortunately) limited to the English-speaking world, it surveys, describes and discusses several past and recent books and articles as well as interdisicplinary projects and conferences that are relevant to energy ethics broadly construed. The primary goals of this literature
Energy Ethics Outside the Box
He is widely recognized as a contributor to the philosophy of science-technology-engineering and is currently at work on a book about the philosophy of engineering. He also reads widely in an effort to make philosophically relevant connections between different approaches to thinking in a world that is now trying to figure out how to live with its love of and worries about energy. Indeed, he had a number of recent books at hand as we proceeded in…
Energy Ethics
Energy ethics, homogenization, and hegemony
Energy ethics, homogenization, and hegemony
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship
The tenet-based approach to energy justice has seen substantial uptake over the past decade. Despite referring to philosophical terminology, energy justice scholars rarely engage rigorously with philosophical methods or ongoing debates. We argue this absence is challenging for two implicit goals that often arise in applications of the approach: to describe and capture ethical-issues surrounding energy systems and to normatively evaluate choices, …
Energy and the Good Life
Access to an adequate level of uninterrupted, high quality, affordable, sufficient and useful energy services varies dramatically across countries. While some nations still experience energy poverty and struggle to fulfil basic needs, others consume well over what is considered sufficient to sustain wellbeing and human flourishing. These imbalances represent fundamental injustices that must be urgently addressed and resolved. Given current inequa…
Of social movements, human rights and electricity access
Not enough (yet)
Shallow vs. Deep Geoethics
At its inception, geoethics was envisioned as a type of professional ethics concerned with the moral implications of geoscientific research, applications, and practices. More recently, however, some scholars have proposed versions of geoethics as public and global ethics. To better understand these developments, this article considers the relationship between geoethics and environmental ethics by exploring different aspects of the human-nature re…
Energy ethics, homogenization, and hegemony
Energy Ethics
This article is intended as a broad review of contributions from the humanities and social sciences to the theme of energy ethics. Although not exahustive and (unfortunately) limited to the English-speaking world, it surveys, describes and discusses several past and recent books and articles as well as interdisicplinary projects and conferences that are relevant to energy ethics broadly construed. The primary goals of this literature
Energy Ethics Outside the Box
He is widely recognized as a contributor to the philosophy of science-technology-engineering and is currently at work on a book about the philosophy of engineering. He also reads widely in an effort to make philosophically relevant connections between different approaches to thinking in a world that is now trying to figure out how to live with its love of and worries about energy. Indeed, he had a number of recent books at hand as we proceeded in…
Energy Ethics
Energy decisions within an applied ethics framework
Everywhere in the world, and in every period of human history, it has been common for energy decisions to be made in an ethically haphazard manner. With growing population pressure and increasing demand for energy, this approach is no longer viable. We believe that decision makers must include ethical considerations in energy decisions more routinely and systematically. To this end, we propose an applied ethics framework that accommodates princip…
Of social movements, human rights and electricity access
Energy and the Good Life
Access to an adequate level of uninterrupted, high quality, affordable, sufficient and useful energy services varies dramatically across countries. While some nations still experience energy poverty and struggle to fulfil basic needs, others consume well over what is considered sufficient to sustain wellbeing and human flourishing. These imbalances represent fundamental injustices that must be urgently addressed and resolved. Given current inequa…
Designing for Care
This article introduces Designing for Care (D4C), a distinctive approach to project management and technological design informed by Care Ethics. We propose to conceptualize “care” as both the foundational value of D4C and as its guiding mid-level principle . As a value, care provides moral grounding. As a principle, it equips D4C with moral guidance to enact a caring process . The latter is made of a set of concrete, and often recursive, caring p…
Ecological Virtuous Selves
Existing predominant approaches within virtue ethics (VE) assume humans as the typical agent and virtues as dispositions that pertain primarily to human–human interpersonal relationships. Similarly, the main accounts in the more specific area of environmental virtue ethics (EVE) tend to support weak anthropocentric positions, in which virtues are understood as excellent dispositions of human agents. In addition, however, several EVE authors have …
“Just” energy? An ecofeminist analysis and critique of a predominant conception of energy
Not enough (yet)
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship
The tenet-based approach to energy justice has seen substantial uptake over the past decade. Despite referring to philosophical terminology, energy justice scholars rarely engage rigorously with philosophical methods or ongoing debates. We argue this absence is challenging for two implicit goals that often arise in applications of the approach: to describe and capture ethical-issues surrounding energy systems and to normatively evaluate choices, …
Shallow vs. Deep Geoethics
At its inception, geoethics was envisioned as a type of professional ethics concerned with the moral implications of geoscientific research, applications, and practices. More recently, however, some scholars have proposed versions of geoethics as public and global ethics. To better understand these developments, this article considers the relationship between geoethics and environmental ethics by exploring different aspects of the human-nature re…
What renewable energy future should we strive for? Assessing renewable energy utopias through Sci-Fi and normative energy ethics
Environmental ethics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (4 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (4 works)