The book investigates the meaning of RRI if little or no valid knowledge about consequences of innovation and technology is available. It proposes a hermeneutical turn to investigate narratives about possible futures with respect to their contemporary meaning instead of regarding them as anticipations of the future.
Table of Content
Part I: Concepts1. Responsibility as social construct
2. The EEE approach to responsibility
3. Technology Assessment for Responsible Research and Innovation
4. Vision Assessment for uncovering the meaning of visions
Part II: Cases
5. Lessons Learned from the nanotech debate
6. Hermeneutical questions addressed to Synthetic Biology
7. Robotics: what does it mean that robots may act, decide, and plan?
8. Animal Enhancement: understanding its meaning
9. Human Enhancement: hermeneutic assessment as contemporary diagnostics
Part III: Orientation
10. Modes of orientation beyond consequentialism
11. Policy advice in the field of techno-visionary sciences
About the author
Armin Grunwald, Professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Head of the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at KIT; Head of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB).
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781119340911 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2016 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5019045 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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