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Which Came First, the Circle or the Wheel? From Idea (ιδεα) to Concrete Construction
Idea is a Greek world (ιδεα) which means mental representation, rational scheme or mathematical figure; Plato and Galileo said that nature uses the...
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PRME Principle Three, 15 Years Later: How Exponential Technologies Can Enhance the Quality of Impactful and Meaningful Business Education
Imagine 10 years further. The concept of a pandemic and of life-threatening viruses, both for humans and machines, has just become an everyday fact....
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Proof-Theoretical System for Predicate Logic: ∏πφ=
The eighth chapter explores proof-theoretical systems for predicate logic (natural deduction proof systems), detailing and justifying the elaborate...
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Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?
There is a steadily growing literature on the role of the immune system in psychiatric disorders. So far, these advances have largely taken the form...
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Visionary Practices Sha** Power Constellations
The assessment of the impacts of sociotechnical futures on processes of innovation is a continuing challenge for technology assessment (TA)....
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Maker Cultures and the Prospects for Technological Action
Supported by easier and cheaper access to tools and expanding communities, maker cultures are pointing towards the ideas of (almost) everyone...
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Scales of Design: Ecodesign and the Anthropocene
In this chapter, we provide with a brief historical overview of the encounter between design and the global environment in the Anthropocene,...
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Debasement of Life? A Critical Review of Some Conceptual and Ethical Objections to Synthetic Biology
The aim of this chapter is to review ethical points of criticism regarding conceptual implications of synthetic biology’s aim of constructing...
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Approach to the Singularity: The Road to Ruin, or the Path to Salvation?
In his sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward...
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Engineering Education in Slavic Languages Countries
This chapter presents the historical common core of engineering education in Central-Eastern Europe. It also discusses the consequences of the fall...
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Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility
This study examines the impact of board diversity on firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Using seven different measures of...
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Cornucopia nanometrica
Nel corso di questo libro le abbiamo incontrate spesso, le nano-macchine e le nanotecnologie, ed è arrivato il momento di fare un po’ di chiarezza....
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Nanoethics in a Nanolab: Ethics via Participation
A participant–observer who is both informed and interested in ethical issues, and is embedded within a nanotechnology research and development...
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Legal vs. Normative CSR: Differential Impact on Analyst Dispersion, Stock Return Volatility, Cost of Capital, and Firm Value
This study examines how the sell-side analysts interpret firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Specifically, we examine the...
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The Conception of Life in Synthetic Biology
The phrase ‘synthetic biology’ is used to describe a set of different scientific and technological disciplines, which share the objective to design...
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Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help us to Understand the Moral Life and Change Society
Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, I discuss what engineering metaphors can teach us about...
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Let’s Get Small: An Introduction to Transitional Issues in Nanotech and Intellectual Property
Much of the discussion regarding nanotechnology centers around perceived and prosphesied harms and risks. While there are real risks that could...
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Ethical Traceability in the UK Wheat-Flour-Bread Chain
This chapter presents the findings of an investigation into the role of ethical concerns in one of the UK’s most important food supply chains,...