The Responsible Scientist: A Philosophical Inquiry

by John Forge

When Fat Boy, the first atomic bomb was detonated at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945, moral responsibility in science was forever thrust into the forefront of philosophical debate. The culmination of the famed Manhattan Project, which employed many of the world's best scientific minds, was a singular event that signaled a new age of science for power and profit and the monumental responsibility that these actions entailed.Today, the drive for technological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822943492
• ISBN13: 9780822943495
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"