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Technoethics: Nature and Cases

Technoethics: Nature and Cases

Peter Heller
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466661226|ISBN10: 1466661224|EISBN13: 9781466661233
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6122-6.ch006
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Heller, Peter. "Technoethics: Nature and Cases." Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society in the Digital Age, edited by Rocci Luppicini, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 77-95. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6122-6.ch006

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Heller, P. (2014). Technoethics: Nature and Cases. In R. Luppicini (Ed.), Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society in the Digital Age (pp. 77-95). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6122-6.ch006

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Heller, Peter. "Technoethics: Nature and Cases." In Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society in the Digital Age, edited by Rocci Luppicini, 77-95. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6122-6.ch006

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Abstract

Technoethics relates to the impact of ethics in technology and technological change in biological, medical, military, engineering, and other applications. Accordingly, new questions arise about the moral right and wrong of corresponding technological issues. These, in turn, generate novel trade-offs, many of them controversial, involving the desirable versus undesirable ethical aspects of the new invention or innovation from a moral viewpoint. The discussion in this chapter suggests that frequently much can be said on both sides of an ethical argument and that therefore, at times, agonizing decisions must be made about which side has the greater moral merit based on numerous variables. The minicases sprinkled throughout the text and the longer automobile engineering case at the end are used as illustrations.

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