Science and Engineering Ethics 15 (1):51-68 (2009)
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This article defends three interconnected premises that together demand for a new way of dealing with moral responsibility in developing and using technological artifacts. The first premise is that humans increasingly make use of dissociated technological delegation. Second, because technologies do not simply fulfill our actions, but rather mediate them, the initial aims alter and outcomes are often different from those intended. Third, since the outcomes are often unforeseen and unintended, we can no longer simply apply the traditional (modernist) models for discussing moral responsibility. We need to reinterpret moral responsibility. A schematic layout of a model on Social Role-Responsibility that incorporates these three premises is presented to allow discussion of a new way of interpreting moral responsibility.
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Keywords | Moral responsibility Technological artifacts Dissociated technological delegation Social-role responsibility |
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Reprint years | 2009 |
DOI | 10.1007/s11948-008-9098-x |
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