Technoscientific angst [[electronic resource] ] : ethics & responsibility / / Raphael Sassower

• Autore: Sassower Raphael
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, MN ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.96
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Philosophy; Technology - Moral and ethical aspects; Science - Philosophy; Science - Moral and ethical aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-135) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 Responsible Technoscience: The Haunting Reality of Auschwitz and Hiroshima; 2 Public Expectations of Technoscience: From Truth to Immortality; 3 Ambiguity and Anxiety: The Making of Human Anguish; 4 The Postmodern Option: A Dialectical Critique; 5 Responsible Technoscience: A Reconstruction; 6 The Price of Responsibility: From Personal to Financial; 7 Cultural Changes: Agenda Setting; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Reassesses the social and ethical situations of technoscientists.What responsibility do the Manhattan Project scientists have for the atomic devastation of Hiroshima? The Krupps scientists for the crematoriums at Auschwitz? Disturbing questions like these are at the heart of this book, a sobering exploration of scientific and intellectual responsibility.Raphael Sassower considers two related phenomena: the positive public image of science as the citadel of truth and objectivity and the angst displayed by scientists over their indirect roles in technological horrors. Largely unexamined, these c
• Titolo autorizzato: Technoscientific angst
• ISBN: 0-8166-8814-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784105103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II