Technology and Responsibility by Carl Mitcham (auth.), Paul T. Durbin (eds.)

By Carl Mitcham (auth.), Paul T. Durbin (eds.)

Since it may well look unusual for a brand new sequence firstly quantity three, a be aware of rationalization is so as. The sequence, Philosophy and know-how, inaugurated during this shape with this quantity, is the legitimate booklet of the Society for Philosophy & expertise. nearly one quantity every year is tobe released, alternating among complaints volumes - taken from contributions to biennial foreign meetings of the Society - and miscellaneous volumes, with approximately the nature of a pro society magazine. The forerunners of the sequence in its current shape have been complaints volumes: Philosophy and expertise (1983), edited through Paul T. Durbin and Friedrich Rapp, and Philosophy and expertise //: details know-how and desktops in conception and perform (1986), edited via Carl Mitcham and Alois Huning - either released (as volumes eighty and ninety, respectively) within the sequence, Boston reviews within the Philosophy of technology. The Society for Philosophy & know-how, now greater than ten years previous, is dedicated to the promoting of philosophical schalarship that offers in a single means or one other with know-how and technological society. "Philosophical scholarship" is interpreted extensively as together with contribu­ tions from any and all views; the only requirement is that the schalarship be sound, and all contributions to the sequence are topic to rigorous blind refereeing. "Technology," the opposite half the philos­ ophy-and-technology pairing, is additionally construed broadly.

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94. 2 For James Madison, The Federalist No. 63, see the first sentence of paragraph five. For The Nineteenth Century magazine (London), see John Adye, "Native Arrnies of India," in vol. 7, whole no. 38 (April 1880), p. 687. The original pointers toward these two references came from the Oxford English Dictionary, which is nevertheless mistaken in attrributing The Federalist No. 63 to Alexander Harnilton. 3 For references to discussions of "responsibility" in these various contexts, see "Responsibility and Technology: A Select, Annotated Bibliography," at the end of this volume.

50 (Winter 1985), p. 18. 31 See A. Hellman, M. N. , Biohazards in Biological Research (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1973); and Maxine Singer and Dieter Soll, Ietter, Science 181, whole no. 4105 (21 September 1973), p. 1114. For a narrative introduction to the discussion recounted here, see Clifford Grabstein, A Double Image of the Double Helix: The Recombinant-DNA Debate (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1979). , Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics, and Politics (New York: Academic Press, 1978), and David A.

Recombinant DNA (op. cit. note 30), p. 24. , p. 23. 3H Two volumes which, while they take off from the recombinant DNA discussion, make more general inquiries about the propriety of restrictions on modern scientific 36 CARL MITCHAM research are Gerald Holton and Robert S. , Limits of Scientific lnquiry (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), which frist appeared, minus Holton's concluding "From the Endless Frontier to the Ideology of Limits," as Daeda/us 107, no. 2 (Spring 1978); and Keith M. , Regulation of Scientijic lnquiry: Societal Concerns with Research, a AAAS Selected Symposium (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979).

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