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To encourage public and stakeholder deliberation on the ethical issues involved in technology implementation a number of novel participatory-deliberative tools, procedures and emergent frameworks have arisen to facilitate ethical deliberation amongst different actors with legitimate stakes in technology governance outcomes; though few have been adequately developed and tested to determine their applicability as public policy decision-support tools (Beekman and Brom 2007). This chapter presents three popular tools that have emerged in the fields of bioethics and healthcare ethics, each of which aims to fulfil such a purpose. After examining the philosophical grounding and policy applicability of the current raft of ethical tools, the remaining portion of the book then showcases a series of new deliberative decision-support tools that build upon their strengths and limitations in light of the foregoing discussion on philosophical pragmatism and John Rawls’s concept of reflective equilibrium.
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Cotton, M. (2014). Ethical Tools. In: Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45088-4_4
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