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  title info:
    title: Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach
  name:
    name part: Cotton, Matthew.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 172 p. 8 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Whether it is nuclear power, geo-engineering or genetically modified foods, the development of new technologies can be fraught with complex ethical challenges and political controversy which defy simple resolution. In the past two decades there has been a shift towards processes of Participatory Technology Assessment designed to build channels of two-way communication between technical specialists and non-expert citizens, and to incorporate multiple stakeholder perspectives in the governance of contentious technology programmes. This participatory turn has spurred a need for new tools and techniques to encourage group deliberation and capture public values, moral and choices. This book specifically examines the ethical dimensions of controversial technologies, and discusses how these can be evaluated in a philosophically robust manner when the ones doing the deliberating are not ethicists, legal or technical experts. Grounded in philosophical pragmatism and drawing upon empirical work in partnership with citizen-stakeholders, this book presents a model called “Reflective Ethical Mapping” - a new meta-ethical framework and toolbox of techniques to facilitate citizen engagement with technology ethics.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Risk and public involvement in technology governance -- Ethics and technology -- Pragmatism, public deliberation and technology ethics -- Ethical tools -- Reflective Ethical Mapping -- Opening up ethical dialogue -- Judging and deciding -- Conclusions.
  note: by Matthew Cotton.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political economy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Industrial engineering
  subject:
    topic: Production engineering
  subject:
    topic: Environmental law
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  subject:
    topic: Industrial and Production Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Political Economy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
  classification: B53
  classification: 601
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 13
  identifier: 9783642450884
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45088-4
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    record change date: 20151204162906.0
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