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Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Current Editor-in-Chief:
Joseph C. Pitt, Virginia Tech
Current Editors:
Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente
Pieter Vermaas, Delft University of Technology
Book Review Editor: Tom Staley, Virginia Tech (tstaley@vt.edu)
Managing Editor: Ashley Shew (technejournal@gmail.com)

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Editor, Davis Baird db@sc.edu
Editorial Assistant, David Stubblefield STUBBLED@mailbox.sc.edu

Contents

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Editorial

Guest Editors, Ibo van de Poel and Peter Kroes

Technology and Normativity
IBO VAN DE POEL and PETER KROES [PDF   120K]

Part 1: Technology and Normativity

In Qualified Praise of the Leon Kass Council On Bioethics
CARL MITCHAM [PDF   188K]

Informed Consent in the Fields of Medical Technological Practice.
LOTTE ASVELD [PDF   1.5M]

From Challenger to Columbia: What lessons can we learn from the accident investigation board for engineering ethics.
JUNICHI MURATA [PDF   276K]

Safe Design
SVEN OVE HANSSON [PDF   177K]

Part 2: Technological Functions and Normativity

Social Norms in Artefact Use: proper functions 60 and action theory.
MARCEL SCHEELE [PDF   264K]

Function and Probability: The Making of Artefacts.
FRANCOISE LONGY [PDF   262K]

The (Alleged) Inherent Normativity of Technological Explanations
JEROEN DE RIDDER [PDF   316K]

How Norms in Technology Ought to Be Interpreted
KRIST VAESEN [PDF   72K]

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