When Technologies Makes Good People Do Bad Things: Another Argument Against the Value-Neutrality of Technologies

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 329-343

  Morrow, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentalism; Technology ethics; Value neutrality

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; ETHICS; HUMAN; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MORALS; MOTIVATION; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84882323641     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-013-9464-1     Document Type: Article

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