Ethical Efficiency: Responsibility and Contingency (Cognitive Science: Responsible Research and Innovation, 1) - Hardcover

Lenoir, Virgil Cristian

 
9781848218987: Ethical Efficiency: Responsibility and Contingency (Cognitive Science: Responsible Research and Innovation, 1)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848218982 ISBN 13: 9781848218987
Publisher: Wiley-ISTE, 2016

Synopsis

Practical and conceptual, the Responsible Research and Innovation set of books contributes to the clarification of this new requirement for all sciences and technological innovation. It covers the multiple and international responsibilities, by using various philosophical resources, mostly discussing the following topics: ethics, contingency, normative economy, freedom, corporate social responsibility (CSR), participative technological evaluation, sustainable development, geoengineering, the precautionary principle, standards, interdisciplinarity, and climate management.

The ethics of efficiency must be considered with regard to the logic of action or to economic, political, legal or scientific systems.

This book presents a question on the central theme of responsible research and innovation (RRI), which has an ethical influence on effective logics. The issue is to question the opportunity and modularities of an ethical effective influence on the logics of efficiency of research and innovation.

From the distinction of efficiency and effectiveness, lies the problem of efficacy, the ethical accord between the two. Thus appears the possibility of taking effective responsibility with respect to systematic injustices potentially linked to this efficiency. This book proposes categories to understand the ethical implications of research and innovation processes, under the aspect of their efficacy.

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About the Author

Virgil Cristian Lenoir has a PhD from the University of Paris IV in France and works as a consultant on the metaphysical traditions and meta-ethical questions. He is particularly interested in the ethics of efficiency.

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Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848218982
ISBN 13 
9781848218987
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176