Living Technology: Philosophy and Ethics at the Crossroads Between Life and Technology

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: What You Will Find in This Book?
	1.1: The Point of Departure: Observations
	1.2: The Mission: Targets and Objectives
	1.3: The Way Ahead: Overview of the Chapters
	1.4: The Origin: Background
Chapter 2: Life and Technology as Conceptual Patterns
	2.1: Life
	2.2: Technology
	2.3: Uncharted Territory: Life and Technology at a Crossroads
Chapter 3: Ethics Guiding Our Pathways to the Future
	3.1: Problem-Oriented Ethics
		3.1.1: Ethics for Analyzing and Resolving Moral Conflicts
		3.1.2: Standard Situations in a Moral Respect
		3.1.3: Beyond Standard Situations in a Moral Respect
	3.2: Ethics for Guiding the Techno-Scientific Advance
	3.3: Ethics of Responsibility
		3.3.1: The Understanding of Responsibility
		3.3.2: Consequentialist Ethics of Technology
		3.3.3: Responsibility Beyond Consequentialism
Chapter 4: On the Track to Creating Life: Synthetic Biology
	4.1: Synthetic Biology
	4.2: The Debate on the Opportunities and Risks of Synthetic Biology
		4.2.1: Studies on the Opportunities and Risks of Synthetic Biology
		4.2.2: Overview of Opportunities
		4.2.3: Categorization of Risks
	4.3: Ethical Challenges
		4.3.1: Risks of Self-Organizing Products of Synthetic Biology
		4.3.2: The Moral Status of Created Organisms
		4.3.3: Human Hubris by “Playing God”?
	4.4: Responsibility Configurations of Synthetic Biology
	4.5: Beyond Ethics: Visionary Narratives Around the Notion of “Life”
Chapter 5: Animal Enhancement for Human Purposes
	5.1: Technologies for Intervening into Animals
	5.2: The Semantics of Animal Enhancement
	5.3: Normative Frameworks and Ethical Challenges
		5.3.1: Between Human Purposes and Animal Welfare
		5.3.2: Ethical Spotlights on Animal Enhancement
	5.4: Responsibility Considerations
	5.5: Beyond Ethics: Changing Human–Animal Relationships
Chatper 6: Shaping the Code of Human Life: Genome Editing
	6.1: Editing Humans? The Case of the Chinese Twins
	6.2: Genome Editing: Turbo Genetic Engineering
	6.3: Ethical Issues of Human Genome Editing
		6.3.1: The Consequentialist View of Germline Intervention
		6.3.2: Deontological Arguments
	6.4: Responsibility Challenges of Germline Intervention
	6.5: Genome Editing: Editing Humans?
Chapter 7: Human Enhancement
	7.1: Technologies for Human Enhancement
		7.1.1: Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance
		7.1.2: Visions of Human Enhancement
		7.1.3: Enhancement in Human History
	7.2: The Semantics of Human Enhancement
		7.2.1: Enhancement versus Healing
		7.2.2: The Semantic Field of Healing, Weak and Strong Enhancement
		7.2.3: Human Enhancement by Technology
	7.3: Ethics of Human Enhancement
		7.3.1: Normative Uncertainties and Ethical Questions
		7.3.2: Ethical Argumentation Patterns
		7.3.3: Balance of the Ethical Debate So Far
	7.4: Are We Heading Toward an “Enhancement Society”?
	7.5: Responsible Human Enhancement
		7.5.1: Responsibility Constellation
		7.5.2: The Case of Neuro-Electric Enhancement
	7.6: Changing Relations Between Humans and Technology
Chapter 8: Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Living Technology?
	8.1: Artificial Companions
	8.2: Autonomous Technologies
		8.2.1: Autonomous Technology in Practice Fields
		8.2.2: Autonomous Problem-Solving and Machine Learning
	8.3: Ethical Issues
		8.3.1: Ethical Dilemma Situations
		8.3.2: Adaptation and Control
		8.3.3: The Moral Status of Autonomous Technology
	8.4: Responsibility Considerations
		8.4.1: Responsibility Assignment to Autonomous Technology?
		8.4.2: Human Responsibility for Autonomous Technology
	8.5: Autonomous Technology: Loss of Human Autonomy?
Chapter 9: On the Future of Life
	9.1: The Ultimate Triumph of the Baconian Homo Faber?
	9.2: The End of Nature (1): Human Impact on the Future of Life
	9.3: The End of Nature (2): Dominance of the Techno-Perspective
	9.4: Does Autonomous Technology Live?
	9.5: Moral Status for Engineered and Created “Life”
	9.6: The Ladder of “Life”
Bibliography
Index