Whether it is nuclear power, geo-engineering or genetically
modified foods, the development of new technologies can be fraught
with complex ethical challenges and political controversy which
defy simple resolution. In the past two decades there has been a
shift towards processes of Participatory Technology Assessment
designed to build channels of two-way communication between
technical specialists and non-expert citizens, and to incorporate
multiple stakeholder perspectives in the governance of contentious
technology programmes. This participatory turn has spurred a need
for new tools and techniques to encourage group deliberation and
capture public values, moral and choices.This book specifically
examines the ethical dimensions of controversial technologies, and
discusses how these can be evaluated in a philosophically robust
manner when the ones doing the deliberating are not ethicists,
legal or technical experts. Grounded in philosophical pragmatism
and drawing upon empirical work in partnership with
citizen-stakeholders, this book presents a model called Reflective
Ethical Mapping - a new meta-ethical framework and toolbox of
techniques to facilitate citizen engagement with technology
ethics."
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