Ethical assessments of emerging technologies : appraising the moral plausibility of technological visions /: appraising the moral plausibility of technological visions. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Federica Lucivero.
• Authors: Lucivero, Federica
• Contents: Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Part I; Chapter 1: Democratic Appraisals of Future Technologies: Integrating Ethics in Technology Assessment; 1.1 Appraising Emerging Technologies; 1.2 From the Myth to the History: The Evolving Social Mandate of Technology Assessment; 1.3 "Institutional" Ethics of Technology; 1.3.1 Ethical Bodies and the Regulation of Biomedical Research; 1.3.2 Normative Evaluation of Emerging Technologies and Advice to Policy-Makers; 1.3.3 Outsourcing Ethical Reflection; 1.4 Limitations in Traditions Assessing Technologies. 1.4.1 The Normative Deficit in TA1.4.2 The Technological and Sociological Deficit in Institutional Ethics; 1.5 The Need for Integrating Ethical Inquiry in TA; 1.6 Between Grounding and Exploring: The Contribution of This Study; References; Chapter 2: Promises, Expectations and Visions: On Appraising the Plausibility of Socio-Technical Futures; 2.1 Expecting Future Science and Technologies; 2.2 The Social Construction of the Future; 2.3 The Guiding Normativity in Technological Visions; 2.4 Beyond an Instrumentalist View: Technology and Morality. 2.5 Analyzing Expectations' Plausibility: A Proposal2.5.1 Desirability Versus Plausibility; 2.5.2 Breaking Down the Plausibility Question; 2.5.3 In Search of Plausibility; 2.5.4 Three Strategies to Appraise Plausible Visions; References; Part II; Chapter 3: The Mechanism in the Pill: From Abstract Images to Detailed Descriptions; 3.1 Visions of Promising Technologies: The Nanopil; 3.2 Promises of Emerging Artifacts; 3.3 Rhetoric and Black-Boxes; 3.4 A Note on Methods; 3.5 The Nanopil: Tales of an Emerging Object; 3.5.1 From an Idea to a Project. 3.5.2 An Idealized System and its Building-Blocks3.5.3 The Functional Components and Their Material Conditions; 3.6 From the Lab "Details" Back to the Big Picture; Appendix; References; Chapter 4: The Doctor in the Pill: From "Technical" Details to Social Practices; 4.1 Expectations of Artifacts in Use; 4.2 (Fictive) Scripts and Actor-Worlds; 4.3 Research Design; 4.4 The Nanopill: Tales of an Emerging Practice; 4.4.1 Nanopil Designers-World; 4.4.2 Comparing Actors' Worlds: Current Screening Practice and Future Trends; 4.4.3 Users' Preference and Resistance; 4.5 Conclusions; References. Chapter 5: The Good in the Pill. Assessing the Plausibility of Visions of Desirable Worlds5.1 Visions of Desirable Worlds; 5.2 Different Expected Artifacts and Different Values; 5.3 Plurality of Values Among Actors; 5.4 Impacts of Technologies and the Moral Landscape; 5.4.1 Mediation; 5.4.1.1 The Practice of Screening; 5.4.1.2 The Nanopil: Allocating Actions and Responsibilities; 5.4.1.3 The Nanopil: Changing Meanings and Epistemic Responsibility; 5.4.2 The Co-production of Technology and Morality; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Part III.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 170; Philosophy; Technological innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects; PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY -- Social; Technological innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319232829; 3319232827
• Related ISBNs: 9783319232812; 3319232819
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 24, 2015).
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