Editors’ Overview: Moral Responsibility in Technology and Engineering
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Editors’ Overview: Moral Responsibility in Technology and Engineering
From its earliest issue back in 1995, responsibility has been a major theme in the Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics. Although the focus of attention and conceptions of responsibility vary considerably over the different articles, the prevalence of responsibility as a topic is remarkable. On a superficial reading, we could see it as the logical corollary of the importance of responsibil...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science and Engineering Ethics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1353-3452,1471-5546
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9285-z