Ethics as Design: Doing Justice to Moral Problems

Hastings Center Report 26 (3):9-16 (1996)
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Solving actual moral problems is not simply a matter of choosing the “best” of several possible responses. It is also a matter of devising possible responses. Design practice in engineering affords important lessons about addressing practical problems.

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