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But is it unique to nanotechnology?

Authors: Godman, Marion
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article discusses some of the problems with establishing nanoethics as a new sub-division of applied ethics. After critiquing early arguments about the potential of a nanoethics sub-discipline, the author draws a distinction be...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9052-y

Biblio - csep - 04/20/2010 - 16:53

Developments in the debate on nanoethics : Traditional approaches and the need for new kinds of analysis

Authors: Ferrari, Arianna
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: The author reviews different discourses within the emerging field of nanoethics, and discusses the limitations of these different approaches. He then examines more recent developments in the debate about nanoethics which call for t...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-009-0081-z

Biblio - csep - 05/05/2010 - 15:31

Knots and strands: an argument for productive disillusionment

Authors: Nordmann, Alfred
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Abstract: This article looks at the contrast between European and U.S.-American approaches to the convergence of enabling technologies. The author finds that these differing approaches creates a paradoxical situation where regional difference...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1080/03605310701396976

Biblio - csep - 06/09/2010 - 10:05

Maßgeschneiderte nanoskalige Systeme: Methodologische und ontologische Überlegungen

Authors: Schummer, Joachim ; Kochy, Kristian ; Schwartz, Astrid E. ; Nordmann, Alfred
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Nanotechnologein im Kontext
Abstract: Focusing on ethical and social questions the recent philosophical debate on nanotechnology ignores the wide dimension of methodological and ontological questions. To complete the philosophical analysis in this sense nanotechnology h...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.zit.tu-darmstadt.de/cipp/tudzit/lib/all/lob/return_download,ticket,guest/bid,1275/check_table,it_chap_downl_embed/_/koechy.pdf

Biblio - csep - 06/11/2010 - 10:22

Nano-enabled Al : some philosophical issues

Authors: Hall, J. Storrs
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Developments in nanotechnology most likely will lead to a future where intelligent machines will outnumber human. The author examines the moral nature of these machines by discussing if machines can have thoughts with true meaning a...
Year: 2006
URL: http://mol-eng.com/ijap.pdf

Biblio - csep - 06/15/2010 - 10:29

Nanoethics: from utopian dreams and apocalyptic nightmares towards a more balanced view

Authors: Gordign, B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In the ethical debate surrounding the field of nanotechnology, there is a tendency to focus either on the great promise or the possible grave environmental and health risks As a consequence, ethical assessments of nanotechnology ten...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-005-0024-1

Biblio - csep - 06/15/2010 - 10:42

Nanoethics as a discipline?

Authors: Keiper, Adam
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society
Abstract: Article discusses the emerging field of “nanoethics” and argues that while nanoethics should not be considered as a new discipline as bioethics is, the potential environmental and health effects of nanotechnology need to be studied ...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/16/TNA16-Keiper.pdf

Biblio - csep - 06/15/2010 - 10:47

Nano-ethics as NEST-ethics : patterns of moral argumentation about new and emerging science and technology

Authors: Swierstra, Tsjalling ; Rip, Arie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: Authors argue that while there may not be a specific nano-ethics, there a pattern of moral argumentation about new & emerging science and technologies (NEST). The article explores these argument patterns and “tropes,” and asks if th...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-007-0005-8

Biblio - csep - 06/15/2010 - 10:53

Nanoethik : eine Neufassung der Debatte

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Year: 2006

Biblio - csep - 06/15/2010 - 10:55

Nanoethik : eine Neufassung der Debatte

Authors: Schwartz, Astrid E. ; Schummer, Joachim ; Nordmann, Alfred ; Gordign, Bert
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Nanotechnologein im Kontext
Abstract: Nanotechnology is developing very rapidly and is believed to have the potential of huge upsides and extreme downsides. In the pubic debate there has been a strong tendency to exclusively focus on the first or the latter. Accordingly...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.zit.tu-darmstadt.de/cipp/tudzit/lib/all/lob/return_download,ticket,guest/bid,1286/check_table,it_chap_downl_embed/_/gordijn.pdf

Biblio - csep - 06/15/2010 - 10:57

"Nanoethics?" What`s New?

Authors: Litton, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Article discusses likely ethical concerns that are being raised (and will be raised) by nanotechnology research and development, and argues that nanotechnology raises similar ethical issues as other past technological advances. Inst...
Year: 2007

Biblio - csep - 05/26/2010 - 16:37

Nanotechnologie als Chiffre der Zukunft

Authors: Schwartz, Astrid E. ; Schummer, Joachim ; Nordmann, Alfred ; Grunwald, Armin
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Nantechnologein im Kontext
Abstract: Nanotechnology and the idea of Converging Technologies both have considerably influenced the scientific and societal thinking about future. Debates on the future of the nature of humans and on the enhancement of human performance, o...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.zit.tu-darmstadt.de/cipp/tudzit/lib/all/lob/return_download,ticket,guest/bid,1267/check_table,it_chap_downl_embed/_/grunwald.pdf

Biblio - csep - 07/01/2010 - 10:38

Nanotechnology – Steps Towards Understanding Human Beings as Technology?

Authors: Grunwald, Armin ; Julliard, Yannick
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: As the field of nanotechnology develops, especially in the areas of biotechnology, there seems to be an increasing trend of conceptualizing human beings as belonging to the realm of technology, or looking at humans as mechanical ent...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-007-0010-y

Biblio - csep - 07/08/2010 - 14:29

Nanotechnology — A new field of ethical inquiry?

Authors: Grunwald, Armin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Parallel to the public discussion on the benefits and risks of nanotechnology, a debate on the ethics of nanotechnology has begun. It has been postulated that a new "nano-ethics" is necessary. In this debate, the - positive as well ...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-005-0041-0

Biblio - csep - 07/08/2010 - 14:41

Nanotechnology: The Visible and the Invisible

Authors: Frodeman, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science as Culture
Abstract: Article looks at the philosophical and ethical dynamics of nanotechnology. Frodeman discusses the `material invisibility` of nanotechnology and the ethical questions it raises, from issues of privacy and surveillance to how it poten...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1080/09505430601022700

Biblio - csep - 07/09/2010 - 13:05

Nanotechnology challenges: Implications for philosophy, ethics and society

Authors: Baird, Davis ; Schummer, Joachim
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: 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. In...
Year: 2006

Biblio - csep - 07/13/2010 - 10:31

Nanotechnology progress, dangers, and widespread hypocrisy

Authors: Sparrow, Richard
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: AZoNano.com
Abstract: In the debate about nanotechnology, enthusiasts for the technology make two opposing sets of claims. When promoting their technology, they speak about the promising research already happening using nanotechnology. When faced with cr...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.azonano.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=1894

Biblio - csep - 07/15/2010 - 09:30

Altering the body : nantechnology and human nature

Authors: Zebrowski, Robin L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Author explores the paradoxical notions of human nature, and how all of these rely on the notion that there is standard human body all of us share. One the notion of a standard body is disproved and that bioethical notions of human ...
Year: 2006

Biblio - csep - 07/30/2010 - 15:58

Altering the body : nantechnology and human nature

Authors: Zebrowski, Robin L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Author explores the paradoxical notions of human nature, and how all of these rely on the notion that there is standard human body all of us share. One the notion of a standard body is disproved and that bioethical notions of human ...
Year: 2006

Biblio - csep - 07/30/2010 - 15:58

Ambient intelligence and persuasive technology : the blurring boundaries between human and technology

Authors: Verbeek, Peter-Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: This article discusses the fields of Ambient Intelligence and Persuasive Technology and how the challenge the basic frameworks we commonly use for understanding the role divisions between human beings and technological artifacts. Th...
Year: 2009

Biblio - csep - 07/30/2010 - 16:02

Anticipating ethical challenges: Is there a coming era of nanotechnology?

Authors: Horner, D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics and Information Technology
Abstract: In this paper the author questions the claims made for a `coming era of nanotechnology' and the ethical challenges, it is argued, that are entailed by this particular technological revolution. This is exemplified by the work of K. E...
Year: 2005

Biblio - csep - 07/30/2010 - 16:40

Beyond Implications and Applications: the story of safety by design

Authors: Kelty, C.M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: This article looks the development of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University, and its involvement in controversies about the environmental and health risks potentially associated with the devel...
Year: 2009

Biblio - csep - 08/04/2010 - 16:20

Of Chemistry, Love and Nanobots

Authors: Smalley, Richard E.
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Secondary Title: Scientific American
Abstract: Nobel Prize winning chemist Richard E. Smalley examines the possibility of nanometer-scale robots discussed in K. Eric Drexler's book Engines of Creation, and explains why he thinks they will never be created. ...
Year: 2001
URL: http://cohesion.rice.edu/NaturalSciences/Smalley/emplibrary/SA285-76.pdf

Biblio - csep - 08/09/2010 - 11:36

On the Autonomy and Justification of Nanoethics

Authors: Allhoff, Fritz
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: NanoEthics
Abstract: This article takes a look at questions about the field of nanoethics, what this field is, what delimits it, and what is special about this field? The author argues that nanoethics can only be as coherent as the overall understanding...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-007-0018-3

Biblio - csep - 08/09/2010 - 11:59

Opportunities in the 'post-academic' world

Authors: Vogt, Tom ; Baird, Davis ; Robinson, Chris
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature Nanotechnology
Abstract: Though some see the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative's funding of Ethical, legal, and societal implications research is superfluous, the authors argue that this type of research helps narrow three cultural gaps: 1) the fragme...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.164

Biblio - csep - 08/09/2010 - 13:06