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Responsible Research and Innovation appears as a paradoxical frame, hard to conceptualize and difficult to apply. If on the one hand research and innovation appear to follow logics blind to societal issues, responsibility is still a blurred concept interpreted according to circumstances. Different perspectives are implied in the RRI discourse rendering difficult also its application, because each social dimension proposes a different path for its implementation. This book will try to indicate how such conflictual understanding of RRI is caused by a reductive interpretation of ethics and, consequently, of responsibility. The resulting framework will represent an ethical approach to RRI that could help in overcoming conflictual perspectives and construct a multi-layer approach to research and innovation.
Responsible Research and Innovation appears as a paradoxical frame, hard to conceptualize and difficult to apply. If on the one hand research and innovation appear to follow logics blind to societal issues, responsibility is still a blurred concept interpreted according to circumstances.Different perspectives are implied in the RRI discourse rendering difficult also its application, because each social dimension proposes a different path for its implementation. This book will try to indicate how such conflictual understanding of RRI is caused by a reductive interpretation of ethics and, consequently, of responsibility.The resulting framework will represent an ethical approach to RRI that could help in overcoming conflictual perspectives and construct a multi-layer approach to research and innovation.
Acknowledgments viiForeword ixIntroduction xviiChapter 1. Responsible Research and Innovation: A New Framework for an Old Controversy 1Chapter 2. Responsibility: a Modern Concept 292.1. The modern formation of responsibility 292.2. Decoupling law and morality 372.3. The political implications of responsibility 582.4. Responsibility as an overarching concept 70Chapter 3. Development of Freedom 793.1. The centrality of freedom 793.2. Legal freedom 823.3. Moral freedom 863.4. Ethical freedom 97Chapter 4. An Ethical Perspective on Responsibility and Freedom 1114.1. Ethics and morality 1164.2. Responsibility and freedom: an ethical relation 123Chapter 5. Framework for the Ethical Assessment of RRI 1435.1. Historical overcoming of RRI 146Conclusion 169Bibliography 177Index 189