Kaasaegne teaduslik mõtlemine ja filosoofilised meetodid
develops technology. autonomous logic.
- Dominant in discourses - Historical evidence: order of invention
and policies promoting multiple and simultaneous invention, etc.
innovation and creativity
Substantivism -
- Technology strongly impacts on society.
- Historical evidence: societies with similar technologies
tent to socioculturally converge.
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Instrumentalism
- Technology can be used in different ways. Societies
decide of what use it makes of it.
- Historical evidence: multiple use of artefacts.
The Argument of Neutrality
Technical artefacts are morally netural.
There are only good and bad uses.
Therefore:
- Artefacts are not morally responsible of the use that is made of them.
- Engineers cannot be morally held responsible for the actual use of the technical artefacts that