The Ethics of Technology: Response to Critics

Science and Engineering Ethics 24 (5):1645-1652 (2018)
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The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles proposes five moral principles for analyzing ethical issues related to engineering and technology. The objections raised by several authors to the multidimensional scaling technique used in the book reveal a lack of familiarity with this widely used technique.

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