Living with uncertainty: Toward the ongoing normative assessment of nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 287-314

  Dupuy, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Grinbaum, Alexei ^a,c  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Université Louis Pasteur   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84920861171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812773975_0014     Document Type: Chapter

References (20)

1. Arendt, H.: 1958, The Human Condition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 230-232 (emphasis added).
2. Broderick, D.: 2001, The Spike, Forge, New York, p. 116 (emphasis added).
3. Chang, K.: 2003, ‘Smaller Computer Chips Built Using DNA as Template’, New York Times, (November 21).
4. de Jouvenel, B.: 1964, L ‘art de la conjecture, Editions du Rocher, Monaco.
5. Dupuy, J.-P.: 1989, ‘Common knowledge, common sense’, Theory and Decision, 27, 37-62.
6. Dupuy, J.-P.: 1992, ‘Two temporalities, two rationalities: a new look at Newcomb’s paradox’, in: P. Bourgine & B. Walliser (eds.), Economics and Cognitive Science, Pergamon, pp. 191-220.
7. Dupuy, J.-P. (ed.): 1998, Self-deception and Paradoxes of Rationality, C.S.L.I. Publications, Stanford.
8. Dupuy, J.-P.: 2000a, ‘Philosophical Foundations of a New Concept of Equilibrium in the Social Sciences: Projected Equilibrium’, Philosophical Studies, 100, 323-345.
9. Dupuy, J.-P.: 2000b, The Mechanization of the Mind, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
10. Ellsberg, D.: 1961, ‘Risk, ambiguity and the Savage axioms’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 75, 643-669.
11. Feynman, R.: 1959, ‘There’s Plenty of Room At the Bottom’ (talk given at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology).
12. Fleming, D.: 1996, ‘The Economics of Taking Care: An Evaluation of the Precautionary Principle’, in: D. Freestone & E. Hey (eds.), The Precautionary Principle and International Law, Kluwer Law International, La Haye.
13. Jonas, H.: 1985, The Imperative of Responsibility. In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
14. Kourilsky, P. & Viney, G.: 2000, Le Principe de précaution (Report to the Prime Minister), Paris, Éditions Odile Jacob.
15. Merkle, R.: 2003, [http://www.zyvex.com/nano].
16. Meyerson, E.: 1927, De Vexplication dans les sciences, Paris.
17. Nordmann, A. (rapporteur): 2004, Converging Technologies - Shaping the Future of European Societies, European Commission, Brussels. von Neumann, J.: 1948, ‘The General and Logical Theory of Automata’ (talk given at the Hixon Symposium at the California Institute of Technology).
18. Rip, A.; Misa, T.J. & Schot, J.W. (eds.): 1995, Managing Technology in Society. The Approach of Constructive Technology Assessment, Pinter Publishers, London.
19. Roco, M. & Bainbridge, W. (eds.): 2002, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performances, National Science Foundation, Arlington.
20. Stevens, J.: 2004, BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.Uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3515312.stm].