The hermeneutic side of responsible research and innovation

The hermeneutic side of responsible research and innovation

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grunwald, Armin, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE 2016.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Cognitive science series.
Responsible Research and Innovation Set ; 5
THEi Wiley ebooks.
Subjects:
Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849128606719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. What Makes New Science and Technology Meaningful to Society?
  • 1.1. Motivation and objectives
  • 1.2. The need for orientation in NEST fields
  • 1.3. Short propaedeutic
  • 1.3.1. The meaning of "sociotechnical meaning"
  • 1.3.2. NEST: new and emerging science and technologies
  • 1.3.3. Techno-visionary futures
  • 1.4. A brief guide to this book
  • 1.4.1. The flow of argumentation
  • 1.4.2. The chapters
  • 1.4.3. The achievements
  • 2. Extending the Object of Responsibility Assessments in RRI
  • 2.1. Motivation and overview
  • 2.2. Some impressions of RRI debates so far
  • 2.3. A pragmatic view on the notion of responsibility
  • 2.3.1. The concept of responsibility
  • 2.3.2. The EEE approach to responsibility
  • 2.3.3. Responsibility assessment
  • 2.4. The object of responsibility debates in RRI so far
  • 2.5. The object of responsibility debates in RRI: an extension
  • 2.6. Concluding remarks
  • 3. Assessing Responsibility by Considering Techno-Futures
  • 3.1. Responsibility assessments: introduction and overview
  • 3.2. Brief remarks on the epistemology of prospective knowledge
  • 3.2.1. The epistemologically precarious character of prospective knowledge
  • 3.2.2. Futures as social constructs
  • 3.3. Responsibility for NEST: the orientation dilemma
  • 3.3.1. Challenges to providing orientation in NEST fields
  • 3.3.2. The orientation dilemma
  • 3.4. Three modes of orientation
  • 3.4.1. Prediction and prognostication: mode 1 orientation
  • 3.4.2. Scenarios and the value of diversity: mode 2 orientation
  • 3.4.3. The value of divergence: mode 3 orientation
  • 3.5. The hermeneutic approach to techno-visionary futures
  • 4. Definitions and Characterizations of NEST as Construction of Meaning
  • 4.1. Motivation and point of departure
  • 4.2. Some observations from NEST debates.
  • 4.2.1. Nanotechnology
  • 4.2.2. Synthetic biology
  • 4.2.3. Enhancement
  • 4.3. The pragmatic character of definitions1
  • 4.4. Defining and characterizing as meaning-giving activity
  • 5. Understanding Nanotechnology: A Process Involving Contested Assignments of Meaning
  • 5.1. Nanotechnology: a paradigmatic RRI story
  • 5.2. The early time of nanotechnology: troubled beginnings
  • 5.2.1. Apocalyptic techno-visionary futures related to nano
  • 5.2.2. Threats to human health and the environment
  • 5.2.3. Philosophical characterizations
  • 5.3. Defining nanotechnology: a mission impossible?
  • 5.4. The meaning of nanotechnology: the shift from a revolutionary to a quite normal technology
  • 5.4.1. Looking back: the development of nanotechnology's meaning
  • 5.4.2. Hermeneutic work on nanotechnology
  • 5.4.3. Lessons learned for RRI debates
  • 6. Robots: Challenge to the Self-Understanding of Humans
  • 6.1. Autonomous technology: challenges to our comprehension
  • 6.2. Robots that can make plans and Man's self-image
  • 6.2.1. Planning robots
  • 6.2.2. Planning as special type of acting
  • 6.2.3. Step 1: Can robots act?
  • 6.3. Technology futures in robotics
  • 6.4. The hermeneutic view of robots
  • 7. Enhancement as a Cipher of the Future
  • 7.1. Introduction and overview
  • 7.2. On the semantics of (technical) enhancement
  • 7.2.1. Enhancement as action
  • 7.2.2. Technical enhancement
  • 7.3. Human enhancement
  • 7.3.1. Enhancement in history: some ambivalences
  • 7.3.2. Human enhancement: some illustrations
  • 7.3.3. Healing, doping and enhancement
  • 7.3.4. Human enhancement: from visions to the marketplace
  • 7.4. Animal enhancement
  • 7.5. Conclusions
  • 7.5.1. Conclusions I: dissolving borders between humans, animals and technology
  • 7.5.2. Conclusions II: better understanding contemporary time.
  • 7.5.3. Conclusions III: technicalizing the self-image of humans
  • 7.5.4. Conclusions IV: RRI debates on enhancement
  • 7.6. Enhancement as a cipher of the future
  • 8. Technology to Combat Climate Change: the Hermeneutic Dimension of Climate Engineering
  • 8.1. Climate change and the ambivalence of technology
  • 8.2. Limitations of the previous approaches to finding a solution
  • 8.3. Climate engineering as a technical option
  • 8.4. Chances and risks of climate engineering
  • 8.5. The hermeneutics of climate engineering
  • 8.5.1. Climate engineering: revival of Baconism?
  • 8.5.2. Expanding the object of responsibility
  • 8.6. Epilogue: hermeneutic extension of the imperative of responsibility?
  • 9. Hermeneutic Assessment: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Program
  • 9.1. Assigning meaning to NEST as object of responsibility
  • 9.2. Hermeneutic approaches
  • 9.3. The emergence of NEST meaning: hermeneutic assessment
  • 9.3.1. The dynamics of assigning meaning
  • 9.3.2. NEST meaning: understanding origin and process
  • 9.3.3. NEST meaning: understanding content
  • 9.4. Reflection and epilogue
  • Inspiration Behind the Chapters
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Other titles from iSTE in Cognitive Science and Knowledge Management
  • EULA.

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