Ethics and Emerging Technologies
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, neurot
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Edited Edited by by RONALD RONALD L.L. SANDLER SANDLER
ETHICS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Also by Ronald L. Sandler CHARACTER AND ENVIRONMENT: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics DESIGNER BIOLOGY: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (co-edited with John Basl) ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTALISM: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (co-edited with Phaedra Pezzullo) ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE ETHICS (co-edited with Philip Cafaro) NANOTECHNOLOGY: The Social and Ethical Issues THE ETHICS OF SPECIES VIRTUE ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT (co-edited with Philip Cafaro)
ETHICS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Edited by
RONALD L. SANDLER Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Palgrave macmillan
Selection and editorial matter © Ronald L. Sandler 2014 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2014 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries
ISBN 978-0-230-36703-6 ISBN 978-1-137-34908-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137349088 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
To Howard Barry Sandler
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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, a
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