"It's standard to divide the moral landscape into deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics, thereby assuming that these three are mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive," writes Douglas Portmore. But yo don't need a whole essay to show that deontology can be consistent with consequentialism; "treat every person as an end in themselves" is an example of both operating in a single maxim. In fact, though, the field of ethics is not exhausted by those three categories; in my own work I include social contract theory (normally thought of as a branch of political philosophy) and ethics of care and moral sentimentalism generally. All this is why it's so difficult to simply assert that we all know an 'ethics of edtech'.
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