EUBARnet - Seumas Miller - Collective Action Problems, Regulation and the Dual Use Dilemma
Channel: EUBARnet
Date: 31/07/2012

Prof. Seumas Miller (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian Research Council Special Research Centre at Charles Sturt University, Canberra; and 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology, The Hague), presents about Collective Action Problems, Regulation and the Dual Use Dilemma at the EUBARnet seminar at Delft Technical University on June 15, 2012. Prof. Miller discusses ethical and philosophical aspects of the dual use dilemma, in particular in the life sciences; presents case studies of dual use experiments, the range of actors and institutions involved in the discussion over dual use, as well as the range of possible integrated response measures. He also presents students with collective action problems raised by the dual use dilemma, as well as proposals and reccomendations.