Ethics on the Laboratory Floor

1. Introduction
Simone Burg, Tsjalling Swierstra

Part I. Moral Philosophers in the Laboratory

2. Which Focus for an Ethics in Nanotechnology Laboratories?
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

3. Responsible Research and Development: Roles of Ethicists on the Laboratory Floor
Armin Grunwald

4. The Multiple Practices of Doing ‘Ethics in the Laboratory’: A Mid-level Perspective
Marianne Boenink

5. Technology Design as Experimental Ethics
Peter-Paul Verbeek

Part II. Case Studies

6. Co-shaping the Life Story of a Technology: From Technological Ancestry to Visions of the Future
Simone Burg

7. Ethics on the Basis of Technological Choices
Xavier Guchet

8. Environmental Ethics in an Ecotoxicology Laboratory
Fern Wickson

9. The Promises of Emerging Diagnostics: From Scientists’ Visions to the Laboratory Bench and Back
Federica Lucivero

10. Dramatic Rehearsal on the Societal Embedding of the Lithium Chip
Lotte Krabbenborg

Part III. Critical Perspectives

11. Pervasive Normativity and Emerging Technologies
Arie Rip

12. Underdetermination and Overconfidence: Constructivism, Design Thinking and the Ethics Politics of Research
Alfred Nordmann

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Engineering, general