BookPaul Sollie, Marcus Düwell, editors.
Summary: Argues that the world must critically assess the potential pitfalls of new technologies in advance. This book addresses methodological issues with regard to the ethical evaluation of new and emerging technology. It focuses on the concept of uncertainty that, unlike the notion of risk, is greatly undervalued in the field of ethics.
Contents:
Evaluating new technologies : An introduction
Ethical aspects of research in ultrafast communication
Whose responsibility is it anyway? Dealing with the consequences of new technologies
Ethics in and during technological research; an addition to it ethics and science ethics
The need for a value-sensitive design of communication infrastructures
The moral relevance of technological artifacts
Interdisciplinarity, applied ethics and social science
Facts or fiction? A critique on vision assessment as a tool for technology assessment
Exploring techno-moral change : The case of the obesity pill
On uncertainty in ethics and technology
New technologies, common sense and the paradoxical precautionary principle
Complex technology, complex calculations : Uses and abuses of precautionary reasoning in law
Ethics of technology at the frontier of uncertainty : A Gewirthian perspective.