Nanotechnology challenges: Implications for philosophy, ethics and society

Collection of essays covering the philosophical underpinnings of nanotechnology and its ethical implications, including risk management, environmental and health affects, and public discourse and future visions of nanotechnology. Includes: Two Cultures of Nanotechnology – Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent ; The Drexler-Smalley Debate on Nanotechnology: Incommensurability at Work? – Otavio Bueno ; Noumenal Technology: Reflections on the incredible Tininess of Nano – Alfred Nordmann ; Nanotechnology and Nature: on Two Criteria for Understanding their Relationship – Gregor Schiemann ; Small but Determined: Technological Determinism in Nanoscience – Cyrus C.M. Mody ; When is an Image not an Image? – Joseph C. Pitt ; Changes in the Design of a Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Images from 1980-1990 – Jochen Henning ; Analyzing the Complexity of Nanotechnology – Marc J. de Vries ; Nanotechnology: Generalizations in an Interdisciplinary Field of Science and Technology – Martin Meyer and Osmo Kuusi ; What counts as a “Social and Ethical Issue” in Nanotechnology? Bruce V. Lewenstein ; The Promise and Treat of Nanotechnology : Can Environmental Ethics Guide Us? Christotpher J. Preston ; Nanosciences and their Convergence with Other Technologies : New Golden Age or Apocalypse? – Louis Laurent and Jean-Claude Petit ; Living with Uncertainty: Toward the Ongoing Normative Assessment of Nanotechnology – Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Alexei Grinbaum ; Great Uncertainty about Small Things – Sven Ove Hansson ; Bridging the Gaps: Science Fiction in Nanotechnology – Jose Lopez ; Beyond the Truth: Pleasure of Nanofutures – Arne Hessenbruch ; Narratives for Nanotech: Anticipating Public Reactions to Nanotechnology – Christopher P. Toumey ; `Societal and Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology`: Meanings, Interest Groups, and Social Dynamics – Joachim Schummer