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Futures, Visions, and Responsibility

An Ethics of Innovation

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Martin Sand

    1. ITASA, Karlsruhe Inst of Tech, Karlsruhe, Germany

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  • A virtue ethics of innovation

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 1-4

  3. A Humanist Ethics of Innovation

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 5-46

  4. Responsibility and Visioneering—Opening Pandora’s Box

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 47-77

  5. Responsibility, Determinism, and Freedom

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 79-152

  6. Moral Luck and Intelligibility

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 153-200

  7. Collective and Corporate Responsibility

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 201-239

  8. The Virtues and Vices of Innovators

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 241-264

  9. A Vision for the Future of Responsibility

    • Martin Sand
    Pages 265-285

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 287-306
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About this book

Martin Sand explores the problems of responsibility at the early, visionary stages of technological development. He discusses the increasingly dominant concept of innovation and outlines how narratives about the future are currently used to facilitate technological change, to foster networks, and to raise public awareness for innovations. This set of activities is under increasing scrutiny as a form of “visioneering”. The author discusses intentionality and freedom as important, albeit fuzzy, preconditions for being responsible. He distinguishes being from holding responsible and explores this distinction’s effects on the problem of moral luck. Finally, he develops a virtue ethical framework to discuss visioneers’ and innovators’ responsibilities.​

Authors and Affiliations

  • ITASA, Karlsruhe Inst of Tech, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Martin Sand

About the author

Martin Sand completed his PhD at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Armin Grunwald and Prof. Ibo van de Poel (TU Delft).​

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