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  • Düwell, Marcus
  • Dordrecht : Springer  (1)
  • Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands  (1)
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
  • Philosophy  (2)
  • 1
    ISBN: 9789048122295 , 9781282069404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Edition: 1
    Series Statement: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology 3
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Evaluating new technologies
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science (General) ; Ethics ; Technology Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Science (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Technische Innovation ; Responsive Evaluation
    Abstract: In this forward-looking volume the invited authors argue that the world must critically assess the potential pitfalls of new technologies in advance. Many of the developments in modern technology are complex, risky, and, to begin with, cloaked in uncertainty. How should we deal with such developments - that may not only have positive effects (such as an increase of our well-being or an improved ability to control and cure diseases) but also negative effects for human beings and the environment (such as global warming or the medicalisation of human beings)? The fact that technological 'progress' often occurs under conditions of uncertainty makes the issue even more pressing. Frequently, we are completely devoid of information concerning the applications of new technologies and what their impact will be on human beings and the environment. History has shown that taking a retrospective perspective by passively awaiting the practical consequences of new technologies is both dangerous and inappropriate, as often damage will already have occurred. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle and those who once had control over the new processes no longer have that power, as the science will have a momentum of its own, unheeding of belated attempts to stop it or slow it down. What is more, technology is often 'logically malleable', with far wider applications than even we can anticipate. Thus, say editors Sollie and Duwell, an anticipatory attitude is required towards dealing with new technology. This book addresses methodological issues with regard to the ethical evaluation of new and emerging technology. It focuses specifically on the concept of uncertainty that, unlike the notion of risk, is greatly undervalued in the field of ethics. It is a must-read for anyone involved in (ethical) technology assessment: philosophers, those involved in science and technology studies, and policy-makers alike.
    Description / Table of 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
    Description / Table of Contents: Exploring Techno-Moral Change: The Case of the ObesityPillOn 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
    Note: Includes index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781402042416
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 28
    DDC: 174.957
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; medicine Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Bioethics ; Ethical Relativism
    Abstract: "This book discusses a range of methodological issues for an interdisciplinary bioethics. How can bioethics be an enterprise that does not only isolate issues and moral reasons but also (re)contextualises them? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different traditional and innovative modes of ethical work in terms of these tasks? By introducing the term ""finitude"" in the sense of limits of human existence, limits of human knowledge and knowledge capacity, a difference was set in the cultural apprehension of medicine. Is medicine aimed at overcoming our existential limits: to fight diseases and prolong life? Finitude reintroduces the existential and cultural basis on which every medicine (limits-sensitive or off-limits medicine) depends, but it concerns also ethical judgment. An apprehension of the limitations of different ethical approaches to biomedicine, however, could strengthen the collaborative effort of an interdisciplinary bioethics that embraces also cultural studies and social sciences."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction; Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Switzerland; Marcus Düwell, the Netherlands and Dietmar Mieth; Germany; I. Fundamental Aspects; II. Classical Approaches; III. Culture and Society; IV. Body and Identity; V. Innovative Modes of Analysis; Erica Haimes, UK; List of Contributors
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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