The Ethics of Invention Technology and the Human Future

by Sheila Jasanoff

In The Ethics of Invention, renowned scholar Sheila Jasanoff dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control.

The Ethics of Invention Technology and the Human Future

Author: Sheila Jasanoff

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 0393253856

Page: 288

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We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end? Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. In The Ethics of Invention, renowned scholar Sheila Jasanoff dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights. Inventions like pesticides or GMOs can reduce hunger but can also cause unexpected harm to people and the environment. Often, as in the case of CFCs creating a hole in the ozone layer, it takes decades before we even realize that any damage has been done. Advances in biotechnology, from GMOs to gene editing, have given us tools to tinker with life itself, leading some to worry that human dignity and even human nature are under threat. But despite many reasons for caution, we continue to march heedlessly into ethically troubled waters. As Jasanoff ranges across these and other themes, she challenges the common assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force. Technology, she masterfully demonstrates, can warp the meaning of democracy and citizenship unless we carefully consider how to direct its power rather than let ourselves be shaped by it. The Ethics of Invention makes a bold argument for a future in which societies work together—in open, democratic dialogue—to debate not only the perils but even more the promises of technology.

The Ethics of Genetic Commerce

by Robert W. Kolb

Patent protection is not meant only to encourage the production of new
inventions, but it is also designed to encourage their ... Keeping an invention
secret stifles innovation by preventing others from using it or from learning from it,
and wastes ...

The Ethics of Genetic Commerce

Author: Robert W. Kolb

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 0470691670

Page: 240

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Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a near future in which the elements of humanity closest to our moral core may themselves be produced, manipulated, commodified, and exchanged. Explores the moral and ethical concerns derived from an increasing knowledge of genetics and the variety of its commercial applications A major contribution to the emerging understanding of the role that ethics will play in genetic commerce Written by experts from the academic and corporate sector, with diverse backgrounds in business, social science, and philosophy Addresses a range of relevant issues, including genetic screening, the use of individual’s genetic information, the rise of genetically modified foods, patenting, pharmaceutical mergers and monopolization, and the implications of genetic testing on non-human mammals

The Ethics of Life Writing

by Paul John Eakin

How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays here explore such questions.

The Ethics of Life Writing

Author: Paul John Eakin

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9780801488337

Page: 271

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Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays here explore such questions.

The Ethics of Protocells

by Gaymon Bennett

Alain Pottage The terms of the forthcoming engagement between patent law and
protocell inventions are still a matter of speculation. This is true even if the frame
of reference is expanded to take in the field of synthetic biology in general.

The Ethics of Protocells

Author: Gaymon Bennett

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 0262012626

Page: 365

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Introduction to the prospects of protocells / Mark Bedau and Emily Parke -- New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- Social and ethical implications of artificial cells / Mark Bedau and Mark Triant -- The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily Parke and Mark Bedau -- A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodia -- The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche -- Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo

The Ethics of Exile

by Timothy Strode

However, these are not two species of invention; rather, I will suggest that
invention operates from the ground up, in accordance with the demands of
human dwelling, and within an interiorizing economy that confers com modity
status upon ...

The Ethics of Exile

Author: Timothy Strode

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1135494606

Page: 264

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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THE ETHICS OF INVENTION . An old technologist , writing for the Journal of
Science , expresses his antipathy to flying machines , and his views concerning
modern inventions generally , after the following manner :Before attempting an ...

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The Ethics of Information

by Luciano Floridi

Such an approach had the goal of explaining through which processes of
invention, writing and transformation a project has become a text onto which the
institution will confer the status of literary work or not (d'ex- pliquer par quels
processus ...

The Ethics of Information

Author: Luciano Floridi

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 0191023272

Page: 384

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Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial production and business, social relations, and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and on contemporary ethical debates. Privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, and pornography online are only some of the pressing issues that characterise the ethical discourse in the information society. They are the subject of Information Ethics (IE), the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and society. Since the seventies, IE has been a standard topic in many curricula. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of new university courses, international conferences, workshops, professional organizations, specialized periodicals and research centres. However, investigations have so far been largely influenced by professional and technical approaches, addressing mainly legal, social, cultural and technological problems. This book is the first philosophical monograph entirely and exclusively dedicated to it. Floridi lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for IE. He does so systematically, by pursuing three goals: a) a metatheoretical goal: it describes what IE is, its problems, approaches and methods; b) an introductory goal: it helps the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to computer ethics; c) an analytic goal: it answers several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of the ethical implications of ICTs. Although entirely independent of The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Floridi's previous book, The Ethics of Information complements it as new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

The ethics of the dust

by John Ruskin

dently within him a sense of grace , and power of invention , as great as Ghiberti's
: -we are in the habit of attributing those high qualities to his religious enthusiasm
; but , if they were produced by that enthusiasm in him , they ought to be ...

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Freedom As a Value

by David Detmer

but this point is consistent with the conception of ethics being here advocated.
The point is that there is considerable room for choice and invention in ethics,
that the truths of ethics are not determinate enough to dictate what should be
done in ...

Freedom As a Value

Author: David Detmer

Publisher: Open Court Publishing

ISBN: 0812698630

Page: 262

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This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.

The Ethics of Hobbes

by Thomas Hobbes

In sum , the discourse of the mind , when it is governed by design , is nothing but
“ seeking , ” or the faculty of invention , which the Latins called sagacitas , and
solertia ; a hunting out of the causes , of some effect , present or past ; or of the ...

The Ethics of Hobbes

Author: Thomas Hobbes

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Page: 377

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The Ethics of the Dust

by John Ruskin

power of invention , as great as Ghiberti's :we are in the habit of attributing those
high qualities to his religious enthusiasm ; but , if they were produced by that
enthusiasm in him , they ought to be produced by the same feelings in others ;
and ...

The Ethics of the Dust

Author: John Ruskin

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The Ethics of Identity

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Ethics. of. Individuality. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT—LIBERTY AND
INDIVIDUALITY— PLANS OF LIFE—THE SOUL OF THE SERVITOR—SOCIAL
CHOICES—INVENTION AND AUTHENTICITY—THE SOCIAL SCRIPTORIUM—
ETHICS IN ...

The Ethics of Identity

Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 1400826195

Page: 384

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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions. The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life---and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves. What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we are. Adopting a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, Appiah takes aim at the clichés and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders. Is "culture" a good? For that matter, does the concept of culture really explain anything? Is diversity of value in itself? Are moral obligations the only kind there are? Has the rhetoric of "human rights" been overstretched? In the end, Appiah's arguments make it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest; between locals and cosmopolitans; between Us and Them. The result is a new vision of liberal humanism--one that can accommodate the vagaries and variety that make us human.

An Ethics of Dissensus

by Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

At stake here is a productive tension between the transformative political praxis
and ethical obligation , between the disruptive temporality of invention and the
anarchic signification of otherness , and , finally , between political and ethical ...

An Ethics of Dissensus

Author: Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

Publisher: Stanford University Press

ISBN: 9780804741033

Page: 288

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Addressing a constellation of diverse thinkers—including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray—the author proposes a new conception of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment and antagonism. The author employs discourses that have hitherto been segregated: postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical democracy.

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SOME MUSICAL ETHICS AND ANALOGIES . therefore it comes to the surface :
you see , by and on ( A Paper read before the ... For if there and treatment of it
which shall not lead us into the is to be simplicity of language , subject , invention
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The Musical Standard

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Making Sense

by Lorna Collins

Carter's work on 'The Ethics of Invention', through the collaborative interchange
involved in material thinking, can be seen to develop Deleuze and Guattari's
propositions for (experimental) thought, since Carter situates thought in terms of
the ...

Making Sense

Author: Lorna Collins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1472573196

Page: 304

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Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It does this by developing an applied understanding of how we can use art as a method of healing and as a critical method of research. Drawing from poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalysis, arts therapies, and the creative processes of a range of contemporary artists, the book appeals to the fields of art theory, the arts therapies, aesthetics and art practice, whilst it opens the regenerative affects of art-making to everyone. It does this by proposing the agency of 'transformative therapeutics', which defines how art helps us to make sense of the world, by activating, nourishing and understanding a particular world view or situation therein. The purpose of the book is to question and understand how and why art has this facility and power, and make the creative and healing properties of certain modes of expression widely accessible, practical and useful.

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by John Albert Sleicher

He adds : UNITED STATES AND CANADA , IN ADVANCE . great industry to feel
the effects of invention . ... the of great undiscovered wonders which will make the
in Passing to the ethical influence of inventions , it inay be said breeding seals ...

Leslie s

Author: John Albert Sleicher

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