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Judging and Deciding

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Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics ((SAPERE,volume 13))

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The previous chapter describes the details and outputs of a hexagon mapping method to draw out a series of ethically informed questions and responses in relation to a participant-constructed (albeit simplified) actor-network. This provides the starting point for the consideration of individual reactions to the ethical content of these actor-network relationships. The second phase of the workshop stimulates reflection and discussion of individual judgements and intuitions that relate to the ethical questions and ideas generated in the hexagon mapping phase of the workshop. Critical to this process of reflecting on moral judgements is the stimulation of moral imagination in the participants, and this chapter details the methods by which this can be achieved. Particular emphasis is placed upon the role of imagery as a stimuli to moral reflection, and the operationalisation of Rawls’s reflective equilibrium concept as a means of evaluating moral judgements in relation to a series of principles and vice versa.

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Cotton, M. (2014). Judging and Deciding. In: Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45088-4_7

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