Armin Grunwald 
The Hermeneutic Side of Responsible Research and Innovation 

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: Concepts

1. 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).