SCHOLARLY OUTPUT

Publications

A selection of books, edited volumes, translations, and peer-reviewed articles. For the complete bibliography see ResearchGate or Google Scholar.

2027

Umbrello, Steven

Artificial Intelligence & Human Dignity

West Chester, PA: Ascension Press

Forthcoming
2026

Umbrello, Steven

Mediated by Meaning: Consciousness and Conversion in the Thought of Jordan Peterson

Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock

2026

O'Hara, Paul; Umbrello, Steven

Can AI Ever Be Human? Consciousness Explored

Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press

ISBN 978-0-8132-4086-2

2026

Umbrello, Steven

L'etica di Bernard Lonergan. Recuperando il bene comune con la Bellezza e la Verità

Roma: Città Nuova Editrice

ISBN 978-88-311-3558-0

Italian
2024

Umbrello, Steven

Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies

Cambridge, UK: Polity

ISBN 978-1-5095-6404-0

2023

Umbrello, Steven

Oggetti Buoni. Come costruire una tecnologia sensibile ai valori

Rome: Fandango

ISBN 978-88-6044-902-3

Italian
2022

Umbrello, Steven

Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots

Budapest: Trivent Publishing

ISBN 978-615-6405-36-4

TBD

Umbrello, Steven (ed.)

Percorsi di umanità e trascendenza. Le opere selezionate di Natalino Spaccapelo

Rome: Armando Editore

Working Draft Italian
2026

Leone, Massimo; Umbrello, Steven (eds.)

Digitally Divided: The Impact of Technology on Belief and Societal Polarization

Dordrecht: Springer

ISBN 978-3-032-10421-2

2026

Hughes, James J.; Umbrello, Steven; Calì, Cristiano (eds.)

Theology of Human Enhancement in Western Traditions

Berlin: De Gruyter

ISBN 978-3-11-151910-4

2024

Umbrello, Steven; Hughes, James J.; Calì, Cristiano (eds.)

The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement

Berlin: De Gruyter

ISBN 978-3-111-24255-2

2022

Dennis, Matthew; Ishmaev, Georgy; Umbrello, Steven; van den Hoven, Jeroen (eds.)

Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

Cham: Springer

ISBN 978-3-031-08423-2

n.d.

White, Thomas Joseph; trans. Umbrello, Steven

La luce di Cristo

Rome: Città Nuova Editrice. (Original work published 2017)

Forthcoming Italian
2026

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.; eds. Pampaloni, M.; Umbrello, Steven

Saggi. Terza collezione

Rome: Città Nuova Editrice. (Original work published 2017)

ISBN 978-88-311-7317-9

Italian
2025

Trans. Umbrello, Steven

Il futuro della tecnologia. Progettazione etica e innovazione

Rome: tab edizioni. (Original work published 2024)

ISBN 979-12-5669-094-7

Italian
2024

Liddy, Richard M.; trans. Umbrello, Steven

Sorprendenti stranezze. Introduzione a Insight di Lonergan

Rome: Città Nuova Editrice. (Original work published 2006)

ISBN 978-88-311-3554-2

Italian
2024

Galletti, Matteo; trans. Umbrello, Steven

The Morality Pill: Ethics and Moral Enhancement

Budapest: Trivent Publishing. (Original work published 2022)

ISBN 978-615-6696-38-0

2022

Balistreri, Maurizio; trans. Umbrello, Steven

Sex Robots: Love in the Age of Machines

Budapest: Trivent Publishing. (Original work published 2018)

ISBN 978-615-6405-39-5

2022

Caffo, Leonardo; trans. Umbrello, Steven

The Contemporary Posthuman

Bradford, UK: Ethics International Press. (Original work published 2017)

ISBN 978-1-80441-010-3

Selected peer-reviewed articles. For the complete bibliography visit ResearchGate or Google Scholar.

2026

Umbrello, Steven

"Proof as Sign, Conversion as Condition: A Lonerganian Meta-Apologetics After Insight 19"

Forum Philosophicum

Forthcoming
2026

Mehnert, Wenzel; Bernstein, Michael J.; Umbrello, Steven; Csabi, Alexandra; Nishi, Masafumi; Mandzhieva, Renata; Alliaj, Greta; Vermaas, Pieter E.

"Ethical Playgrounds: Unveiling a Serious Game for Technological Ethics within the TechEthos Project"

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 13, 484

DOI →
2025

Umbrello, Steven

"Pope Leo XIV and the New Social Questions of Artificial Intelligence"

The Linacre Quarterly, Vol. 92, No. 3, 354–357

DOI →
2025

Umbrello, Steven

"Gli spunti filosofici di Bernard Lonergan per un approccio comunitario-centrico nella rivoluzione quantistica"

Humanitas, Vol. 80, No. 1–2, 83–92

Italian
2025

Umbrello, Steven; Vermaas, Pieter E.; Kumara, Indika; Alleblas, Joost; Driessen, Stefan; van den Heuvel, Willem-Jan

"Quantum Security Threat Discovery: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Discovering Security Risks of Quantum Sensing at the Port of Moerdijk"

NanoEthics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 8

DOI →
2024/25

Umbrello, Steven

"Bernard Lonergan and a Nouvelle théologie for Artificial Intelligence"

The Lonergan Review, Vol. 14, 13–44

DOI →
2025

Umbrello, Steven; O'Hara, Paul

"Human Dignity in the Digital Age"

Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1–22

DOI →
2025

Kevin De Sabbata et al. (including Steven Umbrello)

"Citizens' Perceptions of Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Containment: A Quantitative Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Study"

Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1–27

DOI →
2024

Umbrello, Steven; O'Hara, Paul

"The 'Common Good' in a Genetically-Modified Future: Drawing on Lonergan's Critical Realism in Reproductive Ethics"

Paradigmi, Vol. 42, No. 3, 489–509

DOI →
2024

Umbrello, Steven; Natale, Simone

"Reframing Deception for Human-Centered AI"

International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 16, No. 11–12, 2223–2241

DOI →
2024

Umbrello, Steven; Balistreri, Maurizio

"Human Enhancement and Reproductive Ethics on Generation Ships"

Argumenta, Vol. 10, No. 1, 453–467

DOI →
2024

Umbrello, Steven; Seskir, Zeki C.; Vermaas, Pieter E.

"Communities of Quantum Technologies: Stakeholder Identification, Legitimation, and Interaction"

International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 22, No. 7, 2450012

DOI →
2024

Balistreri, Maurizio; Umbrello, Steven

"The Ethics of Space Travelling and Extraterrestrial Colonization"

Ragion Pratica, Vol. 62, No. 1, 155–170

DOI →
2024

Umbrello, Steven

"Dalla Soggettività all'Oggettività: La Filosofia di Bernard Lonergan come Fondamento per il Design Sensibile ai Valori"

Archivio teologico torinese, Vol. 1, 161–171

Italian
2024

Striano, Francesco; Serrano, Gemma; Umbrello, Steven

"Digital Humanism as a Bottom-Up Ethics"

Journal of Responsible Technology, Special Issue: "Frontiers in Digital Humanism," Vol. 17, 100082

DOI →

For the complete bibliography including all conference papers and earlier articles, visit: