{"product_id":"the-hermeneutic-side-of-responsible-research-and-innovation-hardback-9781786300850","title":"The Hermeneutic Side of Responsible Research and Innovation (Hardback) 9781786300850","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Hermeneutic Side of Responsible Research and Innovation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArmin Grunwald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781786300850, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book investigates the meaning of RRI if little or no valid knowledge about consequences of innovation and technology is available. It proposes a hermeneutical turn to investigate narratives about possible futures with respect to their contemporary meaning instead of regarding them as anticipations of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword  ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. What Makes New Science and Technology Meaningful to Society? 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1. Motivation and objectives  1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2. The need for orientation in NEST fields  8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3. Short propaedeutic 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3.1. The meaning of “sociotechnical meaning”  12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3.2. NEST: new and emerging science and technologies  13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3.3. Techno-visionary futures  15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4. A brief guide to this book  17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4.1. The flow of argumentation 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4.2. The chapters  18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4.3. The achievements 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Extending the Object of Responsibility Assessments in RRI 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1. Motivation and overview 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2. Some impressions of RRI debates so far  27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3. A pragmatic view on the notion of responsibility  31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.1. The concept of responsibility  32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.2. The EEE approach to responsibility  34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.3. Responsibility assessment  35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4. The object of responsibility debates in RRI so far  38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5. The object of responsibility debates in RRI: an extension 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6. Concluding remarks  43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Assessing Responsibility by Considering Techno-Futures  45\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1. Responsibility assessments: introduction and overview 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2. Brief remarks on the epistemology of prospective knowledge 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2.1. The epistemologically precarious character of prospective knowledge  47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2.2. Futures as social constructs 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3. Responsibility for NEST: the orientation dilemma  50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.1. Challenges to providing orientation in NEST fields  52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.2. The orientation dilemma 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4. Three modes of orientation  56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4.1. Prediction and prognostication: mode 1 orientation  57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4.2. Scenarios and the value of diversity: mode 2 orientation  58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4.3. The value of divergence: mode 3 orientation 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5. The hermeneutic approach to techno-visionary futures 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Definitions and Characterizations of NEST as Construction of Meaning  65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1. Motivation and point of departure 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2. Some observations from NEST debates  66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.1. Nanotechnology  66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.2. Synthetic biology 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.3. Enhancement 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3. The pragmatic character of definitions 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4. Defining and characterizing as meaning-giving activity  75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Understanding Nanotechnology: A Process Involving Contested Assignments of Meaning  79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1. Nanotechnology: a paradigmatic RRI story  79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2. The early time of nanotechnology: troubled beginnings  82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.1. Apocalyptic techno-visionary futures related to nano 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.2. Threats to human health and the environment  84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.3. Philosophical characterizations 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3. Defining nanotechnology: a mission impossible?  89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4. The meaning of nanotechnology: the shift from a revolutionary to a quite normal technology  94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.1. Looking back: the development of nanotechnology’s meaning 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.2. Hermeneutic work on nanotechnology  96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.3. Lessons learned for RRI debates  99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Robots: Challenge to the Self-Understanding of Humans 101\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1. Autonomous technology: challenges to our comprehension 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2. Robots that can make plans and Man’s self-image  103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.1. Planning robots  103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.2. Planning as special type of acting 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.3. Step 1: Can robots act?  107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.4. Step 2: What do robots do when they plan? 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.5. The difference between planning humans and planning robots 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3. Technology futures in robotics 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4. The hermeneutic view of robots 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Enhancement as a Cipher of the Future 123\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1. Introduction and overview  123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2. On the semantics of (technical) enhancement 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.1. Enhancement as action  125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.2. Technical enhancement 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3. Human enhancement 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.1. Enhancement in history: some ambivalences  128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.2. Human enhancement: some illustrations 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.3. Healing, doping and enhancement 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.4. Human enhancement: from visions to the marketplace  136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4. Animal enhancement 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5. Conclusions 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.1. Conclusions I: dissolving borders between humans, animals and technology 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.2. Conclusions II: better understanding contemporary time  144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.3. Conclusions III: technicalizing the self-image of humans  148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.4. Conclusions IV: RRI debates on enhancement 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6. Enhancement as a cipher of the future 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Technology to Combat Climate Change: the Hermeneutic Dimension of Climate Engineering  153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1. Climate change and the ambivalence of technology 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2. Limitations of the previous approaches to finding a solution  156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3. Climate engineering as a technical option 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4. Chances and risks of climate engineering 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5. The hermeneutics of climate engineering 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5.1. Climate engineering: revival of Baconism? 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5.2. Expanding the object of responsibility  166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6. Epilogue: hermeneutic extension of the imperative of responsibility? 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. Hermeneutic Assessment: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Program 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1. Assigning meaning to NEST as object of responsibility  169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2. Hermeneutic approaches 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3. The emergence of NEST meaning: hermeneutic assessment  175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.1. The dynamics of assigning meaning  175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.2. NEST meaning: understanding origin and process 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.3. NEST meaning: understanding content  180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.4. NEST meaning: understanding diffusion and impact  183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4. Reflection and epilogue  185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInspiration Behind the Chapters  189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography  191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 215\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Business \u0026amp; management [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Business \u0026amp; management\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Business%20\u0026amp;%20management%20%5BKJ%5D%22\"\u003eKJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-ISTE","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52446340940056,"sku":"9781786300850","price":122.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781786300850.jpg?v=1785111356","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-hermeneutic-side-of-responsible-research-and-innovation-hardback-9781786300850","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}