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This chapter picks up the first challenge. It aims to develop an integrated anthropological and ethical position that recognizes people as living and acting in techno-social networks. Simultaneously, the ethical position aims to empower people to take responsibility for their own roles in these techno-social networks. In this way, it becomes feasible to take a forward-looking responsibility for the social role of technologies, because the essential aspects of ethical theory are brought back into ANT. To put it the other way around, a forward-looking responsibility for the social impact of technologies will be made feasible by incorporating the lessons of ANT in ethics.
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Waelbers, K. (2011). Becoming Responsible for Techno-Social Practices. In: Doing Good with Technologies:. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1640-7_4
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