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Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive

Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive

Sylvain Lavelle, Stephen Rainey
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 32
ISBN13: 9781466636705|ISBN10: 146663670X|EISBN13: 9781466636712
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3670-5.ch021
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Lavelle, Sylvain, and Stephen Rainey. "Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive." Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development, edited by Fernand Doridot, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 312-343. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3670-5.ch021

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Lavelle, S. & Rainey, S. (2013). Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive. In F. Doridot, P. Duquenoy, P. Goujon, A. Kurt, S. Lavelle, N. Patrignani, S. Rainey, & A. Santuccio (Eds.), Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development (pp. 312-343). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3670-5.ch021

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Lavelle, Sylvain, and Stephen Rainey. "Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive." In Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development, edited by Fernand Doridot, et al., 312-343. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3670-5.ch021

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Abstract

Proceduralism has been a major philosophical stream that gathers some outstanding philosophers, such as John Rawls or Jürgen Habermas. The general idea of proceduralism, especially in the practical domains of morals, law and communication, comes from the need to provide some rational justifications to the rules, actions and decisions to be adopted or made by the society or the power in the context of highly ‘plural-complex-developed’ societies. It is particularly concerned with the governance of ethics, in other words, with the institutional and organisational conditions that the procedures of assessment must fulfil so that ethical questions can be addressed, especially in the domain of scientific and technical research and innovation. We show that classical proceduralism does not adequately address problems raised by an ethics of science and technology, and we take the context of Europe as a typical example of what a complex multicultural set of societies can be.

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