Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

• Main Author: Cotton, Matthew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 13
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political economy.; Ethics.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental economics.; Philosophy of Technology.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Environmental Economics.; Political Economy.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

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 Tec...

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.