Engineering and the Problem of Moral Overload.
When thinking about ethics, technology is often only mentioned as the source of our problems, not as a potential solution to our moral dilemmas. When thinking about technology, ethics is often only mentioned as a constraint on developments, not as a source and spring of innovation. In this paper, we...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 143 - 156 |
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Mar2012
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