Interactive technology assessment and wide reflective equilibrium

Interactive technology assessment (iTA) provides an answer to the ethical p roblem of normative bias in evaluation research. This normative bias develo ps when relevant perspectives on the evaluand (the thing bring evaluated) a re neglected. In iTA this bias is overcome by incorporating different persp ectives into the assessment. As a consequence, justification of decisions b ased on the assessment is provided by stakeholders having achieved agreemen t. In this article, agreement is identified with wide reflective equilibriu m to show that it indeed has the potential of justifying decisions. We work out several conditions for this agreement to be achievable and just.