Ethics and Emerging Technologies [electronic resource] /
Sandler, Ronald.editor.
First and only undergraduate textbook that addresses the social and ethical issues associated with a wide array of emerging technologies, including genetic modification, human enhancement, geoengineering, robotics, virtual reality, artificial meat, neurotechnologies, information technologies, nanotechnology, sex selection, and more.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; STRUCTURE AND USER'S GUIDE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; 1. Introduction: Technology and Ethics; 1. Technology in Human Life; 1.1 Technology and Society: Beyond Technology as a Tool; 1.2 The Technological Animal; 2. Themes in the Ethics of Technology; 2.1 The Innovation Presumption: Liberty, Optimism, and Inevitability; 2.2 Situated Technology; 2.3 Lifecycle (or Cradle to Grave); 2.4 Power; 2.5 Form of Life; 2.6 Common Concerns Regarding Emerging Technologies: Extrinsic Concerns
2.6.1 Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS)2.6.2 Justice, Access, and Equality; 2.6.3 Individual Rights and Liberties; 2.6.4 Autonomy, Authenticity, and Identity; 2.6.5 Dual Use; 2.7 Common Concerns Regarding Emerging Technologies: Intrinsic Concerns; 2.7.1 Playing God; 2.7.2 Hubris; 2.7.3 Respecting Nature; 2.8 Responsible Development; 2.9 Ethics and Public Policy; 2.10 A Framework for Ethical Analysis of Emerging Technologies; 3. Ethical Theory and Terminology: A Very Brief Primer; 3.1 Types of Value; 3.2 Types of Theories; 4. Conclusion; PART I GENERAL REFLECTION ON ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY
2. Technology: Practice and Culture3. Technology and Responsibility: Refl ections on the New Tasks of Ethics; 4. Technologies as Forms of Life; PART II REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; 5. Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Debates; 6. Preventing a Brave New World; 7. The Ethics of Sex Selection; 8. Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering; PART III BIOMEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES; 9. Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond; 10. Crossing Species Boundaries; 11. The Coming Era of Nanomedicine
12. Psychopharmacology and Functional Neurosurgery: Manipulating Memory, Thought, and Mood13. Incentivizing Access and Innovation for Essential Medicines: A Survey of the Problem and Proposed Solutions; PART IV HUMAN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES; 14. "Beyond Therapy"; 15. Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up; 16. Moral Enhancement; 17. Enhancing Justice?; PART V INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; 18. Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society; 19. Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of RFID; 20. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of
21. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation22. The Digital Divide: Information Technologies and the Obligation to Alleviate Poverty; PART VI ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; 23. Ethics, War, and Robots; 24. Ethics, Law, and Governance in the Development of Robots; 25. What to Do about Artifi cial Consciousness; 26. The Singularity Is Near; PART VII ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY; 27. Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology; 28. Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: Why Technological Innovation Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; 29. Ethical Anxieties about Geoengineering
30. Ecosystems Unbound: Ethical Questions for an Interventionist Ecology
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
First and only undergraduate textbook that addresses the social and ethical issues associated with a wide array of emerging technologies, including genetic modification, human enhancement, geoengineering, robotics, virtual reality, artificial meat, neurotechnologies, information technologies, nanotechnology, sex selection, and more.
Ethics.
Philosophy and science.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Social Philosophy.