Evaluating new technologies : methodological problems for the ethical assessment of technology developments

Evaluating New Technologies. An Introduction by P. Sollie & M. Duwell Part I - A Case Study: Utrafast Communication.- Ethical Aspects of Research in Ultrafast Communication by A. Driessen.- Whose Responsibility is it Anyway? Dealing with the Consequences of New Technologies by A. Vedder & B. Custers.- Ethics in and during Technological Research an Addition to ICT Ethics and Science Ethics by A. van Gorp.- The need for a Value-Sensitive Design of communication infrastructures by N. Manders-Huits & J. van den Hoven.- Part II - Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Issues.- The Moral Relevance of Technological Artifacts. Or: On Making Things Better by P.-P. Verbeek.- Interdisciplinarity, Applied Ethics and Social Science by N. Nijsingh & M. Duwell.- Facts or Fiction? A Critique on Vision Assessment as Tool for Technology Assessment by N. Karafyllis.- Exploring techno-moral change. The Case of the ObesityPill by T. Swierstra, D. Stemerding & M. Boenink.- Part III - Evaluating New Technologies: Uncertainty and Precaution.- On Uncertainty in Ethics and Technology by P. Sollie.- New Technologies, Common Sense and the Paradoxical Precautionary Principle by S. Clarke.- Complex Technology, Complex Calculations: Uses and Abuses of Precautionary Reasoning in Law by D. Beyleveld & R. Brownsword.- Ethics of Technology at the Frontier of Uncertainty. A Gewirthian Perspective by P. Sollie