Evaluating New Technologies

1. Evaluating New Technologies: An Introduction
Paul Sollie, Marcus Düwell

Part I. A Case Study: Ultrafast Communication

2. Ethical Aspects of Research in Ultrafast Communication
Alfred Driessen

3. Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway? Dealing with the Consequences of New Technologies
Anton Vedder, Bart Custers

4. Ethics in and During Technological Research; An Addition to IT Ethics and Science Ethics
Anke Gorp

5. The Need for a Value-Sensitive Design of Communication Infrastructures
Noëmi Manders-Huits, Jeroen Hoven

Part II. Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Issues

6. The Moral Relevance of Technological Artifacts
Peter-Paul Verbeek

7. Interdisciplinarity, Applied Ethics and Social Science
Niels Nijsingh, Marcus Düwell

8. Facts or Fiction? A Critique on Vision Assessment as a Tool for Technology Assessment
Nicole C. Karafyllis

9. Exploring Techno-Moral Change: The Case of the ObesityPill
Tsjalling Swierstra, Dirk Stemerding, Marianne Boenink

Part III. Evaluating New Technologies: Uncertainty and Precaution

10. On Uncertainty in Ethics and Technology
Paul Sollie

11. New Technologies, Common Sense and the Paradoxical Precautionary Principle
Steve Clarke

12. Complex Technology, Complex Calculations: Uses and Abuses of Precautionary Reasoning in Law
Deryck Beyleveld, Roger Brownsword

13. Ethics of Technology at the Frontier of Uncertainty: A Gewirthian Perspective
Paul Sollie

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Science, general, Ethics