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Has progress in the scholarship and teaching of engineering ethics begun to stagnate? This question, together with responses to it given by Steven Goldman1 and Langdon Winner, 2 motivated this paper.
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Broome, T.H. (1990). Imagination for Engineering Ethicists. In: Durbin, P.T. (eds) Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy and Technology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0557-3_5
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