From the Responsibility of Science and Technology to the Shared Responsibility of Technoscience

Andrzej KIEPAS

Zakład Antropologii Filozoficznej i Filozofii Cywilizacji, Instytut Filozofii, Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Uniwersytet Śląski, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland , Poland

Abstract

The article discusses the problem responsibility in the context of the processes of change and development of science and technology. The transformations of the ways science and technology function in the society, as well as the problems resulting from the universalization of their results, pose, among others, the challenge of responsibility. The developments in question need to be accompanied be new ways of understanding responsibility and its demands. The article describes the evolution of the responsibility of science and technology based on the principles of reparation and prevention into the shared responsibility of technoscience.

Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Keywords:

science and technology, technoscience, responsibility, shared responsibility, responsible research and innovations, valuation of technologies