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Waelbers, Katinka and Dorstewitz, Philipp (2014). Ethics in Actor Networks, or: What Latour Could Learn from Darwin and Dewey. Sci. Eng. Ethics, 20 (1). S. 23 - 41. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1471-5546

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Abstract

In contemporary Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies, Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory (ANT) is often used to study how social change arises from interaction between people and technologies. Though Latour's approach is rich in the sense of enabling scholars to appreciate the complexity of many relevant technological, environmental, and social factors in their studies, the approach is poor from an ethical point of view: the doings of things and people are couched in one and the same behaviorist (third person) vocabulary without giving due recognition to the ethical relevance of human intelligence, sympathy and reflection in making responsible choices. This article argues that two other naturalist projects, the non-teleological virtue ethics of Charles Darwin and the pragmatist instrumentalism of John Dewey can enrich ANT-based STS studies, both, in a descriptive and in a normative sense.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Waelbers, Katinka UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Dorstewitz, Philipp UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-445043
DOI:	10.1007/s11948-012-9408-1
Journal or Publication Title:	Sci. Eng. Ethics
Volume:	20
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 23 - 41
Date:	2014
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	DORDRECHT
ISSN:	1471-5546
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Ethics; Engineering, Multidisciplinary; History & Philosophy Of Science; Multidisciplinary Sciences; Philosophy Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44504