Responsibility: The First Virtue of Innovation? A discussion of some ethical and meta-ethical issues concerning the concept of ‘responsibility’ in technological innovation

In this paper I investigate the concept of responsibility in the context of technological innovation, with reference to two types of responsibility: ex post and ex ante responsibility. Exposing the shortcomings of ex post responsibility in the context of innovation, I examine different ways of conce...

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Main Author: Espen D. Stabell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2014-11-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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Online Access:http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-9-no-4-2014/75-conference-paper/513-responsibility-the-first-virtue-of-innovation-a-discussion-of-some-ethical-and-meta-ethical-issues-concerning-the-concept-of-responsibility-in-technological-innovation