The hermeneutic side of responsible research and innovation / Armin Grunwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grunwald, Armin, author.

Series:

Cognitive science series.

Responsible Research and Innovation Set ; 5

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Cognitive Science Series

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Research.

Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE : Wiley, 2016.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

The book investigates the meaning of RRI if little or no valid knowledge about consequences of innovation and technology is available. It proposes a hermeneutical turn to investigate narratives about possible futures with respect to their contemporary meaning instead of regarding them as anticipations of the future.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-34089-6

1-119-34087-X

OCLC:

965141939