Designing a Good Life: A Matrix for the Technological Mediation of Morality

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 157-172

  Swierstra, Tsjalling ^a   Waelbers, Katinka ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mediation; NEST ethics; Responsibility; Techno moral change; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; HUMAN; MORALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY; THINKING;

ENGINEERING; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY; THINKING;

EID: 84856755658     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9251-1     Document Type: Article

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