Responsibility and Freedom
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- ISBN 9781848218970
- Weight: 485g
- Dimensions: 163 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2016
- Publisher: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Robert GIANNI is a researcher at the University of Namur in Belgium. His research focuses on Critical Theory and different approaches to the problem of justice with a special attention to its social repercussions.
