Ethics As Governance

The article deals with the governance potential of complex social and humanitarian programs that are developing as additional components of large scientific and technical projects. They promptly respond to emerging challenges and do not require long negotiations and agreements at the level of national or international legislation. The study of institutional structures and functions of new types of ethics makes it possible to understand how social knowledge and the humanities participate in normative and political discourses of governance that are structuring relationships of technoscience and society.

Keywords: ethics, new types of ethics, ethics institutions, bioethics, governance, ELSI, responsible research and innovation.