TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to criticise ad hoc approaches to ethics in research and development in technology as descriptive and non‐ethical, and based upon a narrow conception of rationality.Design/methodology/approach– The approach deploys a theory of normativity that can incorporate values and a broad conception of rationality, in order to account for the relevance of issues for the addressees of normative injunctions.Findings– A normative approach is possible and required in order to implement ethics in research and development in technology.Originality/value– The approach draws together themes from current alternative approaches that each fail to deploy the full resources of the normative approach, and so fail to fully account for ethics. This approach identifies and moves beyond present limited approaches.
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SN  - 1477-996X
DO  - 10.1108/14779961111167649
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14779961111167649
AU  - Rainey Stephen
AU  - Goujon Philippe
ED  - Kutoma Wakunuma
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Toward a normative ethics for technology development
T2  - Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 157
EP  - 179
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -