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3 - Dealing with Moral Dilemmas through Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2017

Jeroen van den Hoven
Affiliation:
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Seumas Miller
Affiliation:
Charles Sturt University
Thomas Pogge
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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