NanoEthics

ISSNs: 1871-4757, 1871-4765

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    Nanoscience or Nanosciences? - The Interdisciplinary Discipline.Thomas Fuhrmann-Lieker - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (3):1-8.
    In this article, we question whether nanoscience has already matured into a single discipline or whether it retains the character of an interdisciplinary endeavour, involving the natural sciences as well as technology. In search for an answer, the traits of disciplines according to William Bechtel are considered. Arguments in favour of using 'nanoscience', as a singular, or 'nanosciences', as a plural, are elucidated. In terms of objects of study, nanoscience is compared with colloid science. Cognitive abilities are traced back to (...)
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    The Presentation of Brain-computer Interfaces As Autonomy-enhancing Therapy Products.Toni Garbe - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (3):1-15.
    This paper explores the societal and individual acceptance of technologies for the human body, focusing on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), particularly Elon Musk's Neuralink. BCIs promise a direct connection between the brain and computers. Their acceptance depends on general aspects such as feasibility and usefulness. In the case of brain implants, they should also not jeopardize the user's autonomy or have a dehumanizing effect. In the case of innovative technologies that are still in development, such as BCIs, acceptance depends largely on (...)
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    Brief for Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology.Carl Mitcham - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (3):1-6.
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    Correction: Modular Ontologies for Genetically Modified People and their Bioethical Implications.Derek So, Robert Sladek & Yann Joly - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (3):1-1.
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    Addressing Multiple Responsibilities in the Early Stages of R&D with Provenance Assessment.Janine Gondolf - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-15.
    A wealth of literature and best practices on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) document how it can be implemented in projects. However, each project is too specific to simply replicate existing patterns. Especially in early projects with a high degree of uncertainty, where indicators and measures cannot be applied, the so-called provenance assessment as a methodological change of perspective makes it possible to assess the procedural quality of research by means of narratives. A clear picture of the challenges for European (...)
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    Normative Challenges of Risk Regulation of Artificial Intelligence.Carsten Orwat, Jascha Bareis, Anja Folberth, Jutta Jahnel & Christian Wadephul - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-29.
    Approaches aimed at regulating artificial intelligence (AI) include a particular form of risk regulation, i.e. a risk-based approach. The most prominent example is the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). This article addresses the challenges for adequate risk regulation that arise primarily from the specific type of risks involved, i.e. risks to the protection of fundamental rights and fundamental societal values. This is mainly due to the normative ambiguity of such rights and societal values when attempts are made to (...)
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    Gene Editing Cattle for Enhancing Heat Tolerance: A Welfare Review of the “PRLR-SLICK Cattle” Case.Mattia Pozzebon, Bernt Guldbrandtsen & Peter Sandøe - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-15.
    In March 2022 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a risk assessment of a recent animal gene editing proposal submitted by Acceligen™. The proposal concerned the possibility of changing the cattle genome to obtain a slicker, shorter hair coat. Using CRISPR-Cas9 it was possible to introduce an intentional genomic alteration (IGA) to the prolactin receptor gene (PRLR), thereby producing PRLR-SLICK cattle. The goal was to diminish heat stress in the cattle by enhancing their heat-tolerance. With regard to unintended (...)
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    Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity: Studies in Science, Society and Sustainability.Svitlana Shcherbak - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-9.
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    Modular Ontologies for Genetically Modified People and their Bioethical Implications.Derek So, Robert Sladek & Yann Joly - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-35.
    Participants in the long-running bioethical debate over human germline genetic modification (HGGM) tend to imagine future people abstractly and on the basis of conventionalized characteristics familiar from science fiction, such as intelligence, disease resistance and height. In order to distinguish these from scientifically meaningful terms like “phenotype” and “trait,” this article proposes the term “persemes” to describe the units of difference for hypothetical people. In the HGGM debate, persemes are frequently conceptualized as similar, modular entities, like building blocks to be (...)
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    Representations of (Nano)technology in Comics from the ‘NanoKOMIK’ Project.Sergio Urueña - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-30.
    Representations of science and technology, embodied as imaginaries, visions, and expectations, have become a growing focus of analysis. These representations are of interest to normative approaches to science and technology, such as Hermeneutic Technology Assessment and Responsible Innovation, because of their ability to modulate understandings of science and technology and to influence scientific and technological development. This article analyses the culture of participation underlying the NanoKOMIK project and the representations and meanings of (nano)science and (nano)technology communicated in the two nano-fiction (...)
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    An Integrated Embodiment Concept Combines Neuroethics and AI Ethics – Relational Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Neurotechnologies and the Future of Work.Ludwig Weh - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (2):1-16.
    Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) bear great transformative potential in the economic, technological and social sectors, impacting especially future work environments. Ethical regulation of AI requires a relational understanding of the technology by relevant stakeholder groups such as researchers, developers, politicians, civil servants, affected workers or other users applying AI in their work processes. The purpose of this paper is to support relational AI discourse for an improved ethical framing and regulation of the technology. The argumentation emphasizes a widespread reembodied (...)
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    Reflection on Gene Editing from the Perspective of Biopolitics.Yuan Chen & Xiaoliang Luo - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (1):1-7.
    The study examines the creation of gene-edited infants from the perspective of biopolitics. Through an analysis at the level of “body-power”, we show that the infants are a product of an advanced stage of biopolitics. On the other hand, considering the level of “space-power”, we indicate that the mechanism of space deepens the governance of population through biopower, leading to real conflicts between past and future in the present. The infants can be seen as “heterotopias of mirrors”, where super-reality replaces (...)
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    Quantum Technologies: a Hermeneutic Technology Assessment Approach.Luca M. Possati - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (1):1-15.
    This paper develops a hermeneutic technology assessment of quantum technologies. It offers a “vision assessment” of quantum technologies that can eventually lead to socio-ethical analysis. Section 2 describes this methodological approach and in particular the concept of the hermeneutic circle applied to technology. Section 3 gives a generic overview of quantum technologies and their impacts. Sections 4 and 5 apply the hermeneutic technology assessment approach to the study of quantum technologies. Section 5 proposes distinguishing three levels in the analysis of (...)
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    Testing Reflexive Practitioner Dialogues: Capacities for Socio-technical Integration in Meditation Research.Mareike Smolka & Erik Fisher - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (1):1-26.
    To put frameworks of Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I) into practice, engagement methods have been developed to study and enhance technoscientific experts’ capacities to reflexively address value considerations in their work. These methods commonly rely on engagement between technoscientific experts and social scholars, which makes them vulnerable to structural barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. To circumvent these barriers, we adapt Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) for broader use within technoscientific communities. We call this adaptation: reflexive practitioner dialogues. While the (...)
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    Roberto Marchesini, Technophysiology, or How Technology Modifies the Self, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023, 242pp. [REVIEW]Cosetta Veronese - 2024 - NanoEthics 18 (1):1-5.
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