Research in Applied Ethics: Problems and Perspectives |
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Authors: | Seumas Miller |
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Affiliation: | (1) Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University/Australian National University, LPO Box 8260, ANU, Canberra, 2601, Australia |
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Abstract: | The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in concern with matters of ethics in all areas of public life. This ‘applied turn’ in ethics raises important issues not only of focus, but also of methodology. Sometimes a moral end or moral feature is designed into an institution or technology; sometimes a morally desirable outcome is the fortuitous, but unintended, consequence of an institutional arrangement or technological invention. If designing-in ethics is the new methodological orientation for applied ethics, globalisation is providing many of the practical ethical problems upon which to deploy this methodology. This is a revised version of an article that was presented at the 2007 Applied Ethics Conference in Sapporo, Japan, hosted by the University of Hokkaido. Thanks to Jeroen van den Hoven for the key idea of ‘designing-in-ethics’. |
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Keywords: | Designing-in ethics Collective responsibility Institutional ethics Ethics and technology Globalisation Duty to aid Financial service providers |
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