Ethics and Emerging Technologies

First and only undergraduate textbook that addresses the social and ethical issues associated with a wide array of emerging technologies, including genetic modification, human enhancement, geoengineering, robotics, virtual reality, artificial meat, neurotechnologies, information technologies, nanotechnology, sex selection, and more.

“Sandler’s book Ethics and Emerging Technologies offers an overview of the topic and gathers contributions from philosophers, ethicists, and policy scholars in an attempt to help students develop linguistic, conceptual, critical, and perspectival resources which will enable them to think carefully about the ethics of new technologies. … For those who have been focusing on nanoethics, this book is thus a suitable starting point for an exploration or comparison of key ethical issues relating to different types of technology domains.” (Laura Yenisa Cabrera Trujillo, Nanoethics, Vol. 9, 2015)

Keith Abney, Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group, California Polytechnic State University, USA. Fritz Allhoff, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, USA. John Basl, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, USA. Francoise Baylis, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada Mark Bedau, Department of Philosophy, Reed University, USA. George Bekey, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, USA. Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford UK. Maria Bottis, Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, Greece Philip Brey, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, The Netherlands Philip Cafaro, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, USA. James Collins, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA. Gary Comstock, Department of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, USA. Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, Division of Medical Ethics, Cornell Medical College, USA. Thomas Douglas, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, UK. Kevin Elliott, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA. Lucy Frith, Department of Health Services Research, University of Liverpool, UK. Tamara Garcia, College of Law, Georgia State University, USA. Michele Garfinkle, Science Policy Programme, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany Marin Gillis, Department of Humanities, Health and Society, Florida International University, USA. Walter Glannon, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, USA. Clive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Australia Kenneth Himma, Department of Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University, USA. Hans Jonas, Department of Philosophy, New School of Social Research, USA. Leon Kass, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, USA.  Lori Knowles, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Canada Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering, Google, USA. Matthew Liao, Center for Bioethics, New York University, USA. Patrick Lin, Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group, California Polytechnic State University, USA. Ben Minteer, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA. Arnold Pacey, The Open University, UK. Christopher Preston, Department of Philosophy, University of Montana, USA. Michael Ravvin, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, USA. Jason Robert, Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University, USA.  Ronald Sandler, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University, USA. Vandana Shiva, Navdanya Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology, India Richard Spinello, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, USA. Jay Stanley, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union, USA. Barry Steinhardt, Program on Technology and Liberty, American Civil Liberties Union, USA. Robert Streiffer, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, USA.  Paul Thompson, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, USA. Mark Triant, Interactive Telecommunications, New York University, USA. Jeroen Van den Hoven, Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University, The Netherlands Wendell Wallach, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA. Langdon Winner, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.