Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

Whether it is nuclear power, geo-engineering or genetically modified foods, the development of new technologies can be fraught with complex ethical challenges and political controversy which defy simple resolution. In the past two decades there has been a

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Matthew Cotton

Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics Volume 13

Series editor Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Editorial Board Atocha Aliseda Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Coyoacan, Mexico Giuseppe Longo Centre Cavaillès, CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Chris Sinha Lund University, Lund, Sweden Paul Thagard Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada John Woods University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada

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About this Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) publishes new developments and advances in all the fields of philosophy, epistemology, and ethics, bringing them together with a cluster of scientific disciplines and technological outcomes: from computer science to life sciences, from economics, law, and education to engineering, logic, and mathematics, from medicine to physics, human sciences, and politics. It aims at covering all the challenging philosophical and ethical themes of contemporary society, making them appropriately applicable to contemporary theoretical, methodological, and practical problems, impasses, controversies, and conflicts. The series includes monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops as well as selected PhD theses.

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Matthew Cotton

Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

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Matthew Cotton Faculty of Social Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield United Kingdom

ISSN 2192-6255 ISBN 978-3-642-45087-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-45088-4

ISSN 2192-6263 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-45088-4 (eBook)

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