Engaging Narratives and the Limits of Lay Ethics: Introduction

NanoEthics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-140

  Nordmann, Alfred ^a   Macnaghten, Phil ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation and deliberation; Heuristics for the discovery of ethical issues; Language games of ethics; Narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956492273     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-010-0095-6     Document Type: Editorial

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