Modeling Technoscience and Nanotechnology Assessment ― Perspectives and Dilemmas

Binczyk discusses caring about the future of the collective: monitoring technoscience in the sociology of risk and science and technology studies. She begins by describing the modern shape of technoscience, then surveys proposals such as Beck's cosmopolitanism and the challenges posed by the risk society, concrete ways of expanding participation and their respective weaknesses, and the macro-ethics of global responsibility. Stepien considers nanotechnology: assessment and convergence inside technoscience. His perspectives are the constitution of the nano-domain as science and technology, nanotechnology and the development of an assessment regime, and ethical aspects: nano-safety and nano-toxicology. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Ewa Binczyk, PhD in philosophy, habilitation in philosophy of science; works at the Nicolas Copernicus University; Scholarship for Young Researchers from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), the Fulbright Scholarship, ?Polityka? Scholarship; main research fields: philosophy of Science, philosophy of technology, sociology of scientific knowledge.
Tomasz Stepien, PhD; Head of Political Science and Social Communication Research Unit at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Department of Humanities; Scholarships of European Commission and Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation; main research fields: philosophy of culture and technology, technology assessment, research and science policy, international relations.