Nanotechnology Challenges

Implications For Philosophy, Ethics And Society

By: Joachim Schummer (Editor), Davis Baird (Editor)

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Nanotechnology is an emerging and rapidly growing field whose dynamics and prospects pose many great challenges not only to scientists and engineers but also to society at large. This volume includes the state-of-the-art philosophical, ethical, and sociological reflection on nanotechnology, written by leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences in North America and Europe. It unravels the philosophical underpinnings of nanotechnology, its metaphysical and epistemological foundations, and its conceptual complexity. It explores the ethical issues of nanotechnology, its impact on human, environmental, and social conditions, and the options for reasonable risk management. It examines the public discourse on nanotechnology and its related visions and provides both lessons from the past and outlooks for the future.

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Introduction	p. 1
Philosophical Issues
The Drexler Challenge
Two Cultures of Nanotechnology?	p. 7
The Drexler-Smalley Debate on Nanotechnology: Incommensurability at Work?	p. 29
The Metaphysics of Nanotechnology
Noumenal Technology: Reflections on the Incredible Tininess of Nano	p. 49
Nanotechnology and Nature: On Two Criteria for Understanding their Relationship	p. 73
Small, but Determined: Technological Determinism in Nanoscience	p. 95
The Truth of Nanoscopic Images
When is an Image Not an Image?	p. 131
Changes in the Design of Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Images from 1980 to 1990	p. 143
Dealing with Complexity
Analyzing the Complexity of Nanotechnology	p. 165
Nanotechnology: Generalizations in an Interdisciplinary Field of Science and Technology	p. 181
Ethical Issues
Social and Environmental Ethics of Nanotechnology
What Counts as a 'Social and Ethical Issue' in Nanotechnology?	p. 201
The Promise and Threat of Nanotechnology: Can Environmental Ethics Guide Us?	p. 217
Managing the Risks of Nanotechnology
Nanosciences and their Convergence with Other Technologies: New Golden Age or Apocalypse?	p. 249
Living with Uncertainty: Toward the Ongoing Normative Assessment of Nanotechnology	p. 287
Great Uncertainty about Small Things	p. 315
Societal Issues
Public Discourses on the Future
Bridging the Gaps: Science Fiction in Nanotechnology	p. 327
Beyond Truth: Pleasure of Nanofutures	p. 357
Visions and Public Reactions to Nanotechnology
Narratives for Nanotech: Anticipating Public Reactions to Nanotechnology	p. 383
'Societal and Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology': Meanings, Interest Groups, and Social Dynamics	p. 413
Biographical Notes on the Contributors	p. 451
Acknowledgments	p. 459
Index of Names	p. 461
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