What Peterson Gets Wrong about Truman and The Bomb

Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (1):69-75 (2022)
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Martin B. Peterson argues that the social experiment analysis improperly shifts our focus onto the rhetorical dimension of debates over technology, which is ‘clearly irrelevant’ to the ‘traditional...

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Ethics for engineers.Martin Peterson - 2019 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Nuclear Energy as a Social Experiment.Ibo van de Poel - 2011 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (3):285 - 290.
Why New Technologies Should be Conceived as Social Experiments.Ibo van de Poel - 2013 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 16 (3):352-355.
New Technologies Should not be Treated as Social Experiments.Martin B. Peterson - 2013 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 16 (3):346-348.

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