This book covers all forms of ethical assessment of research and innovation at the European Commission, including the implications of the concept of RRI which has emerged as a new framework to be used by the European Commission, and indeed including the newer concepts of Open Innovation and Open Science which are designed to subsume and reconfigure RRI.
The book can be used as a ‘how to’ guide to understand and navigate the ethical and societal demands in developing European research projects; it also pushes the reflection and reflexivity further, bringing provoking new (and also some very old) perspectives to bear on ardent debates in studies of expertise, ethics and policy making.
Table of Contents
Foreword 1
Bernard REBER
Introductions 5
Before the first evening 5
I.1 First evening - First story 14
I.2 Second evening - Second story 15
I.3 Third evening - Ultimate story 18
I.4. Beginning of the awakening - Histories found (Return to the roots) 27
I.5 The two sources (seeds, seedlings, schemes) 30
I.6 Far and wide open book 37
Inter-section 1 What is Ethics of Sciences, Technologies, and Innovation? 49
Book I Living Your Values 59
Before the first morning 59
1.1 The measure of all things 62
1.1.1 At any time 62
1.1.2 A world of difference 63
1.2 Having read this book 64
1.3 At the roots of ethics 65
1.3.1 What is the just? 67
1.3.2 What is the good? 68
1.3.3 Duty to respect 70
1.3.4 Chanson de geste 72
1.3.5 Closed book, in the open 77
1.3.6 To be present 78
1.4 At the roots of violence (Sins of the Fathers) (Must one eat up?) (Winter is coming) 78
1.4.1 Addendum: An eye for an eye 83
1.4.2 Change in our time 84
1.5 Is life a game? 85
1.5.1 The game of the world 85
1.5.2 Between game and world: three movements 87
1.5.3 From the three movements to the fourth premise: from lusory attitude to morality design 88
1.6 The ethics paradox 92
Inter-section 2 Cis-theme 99
Book II European Constructions of the Future 143
The rapture of Europe 143
2.1 What Europe do we want to live in together? 145
2.1.1 Futures (and Europe) (imagined communities) 146
2.1.2 (Fore)seeing like a State 146
2.1.3 The European project 147
2.1.4 Futures (and science and technology) 148
2.1.5 Palimpsest and palinode (imagined communities) 149
2.2 Precious participation 150
2.2.1 The three deficits 150
2.2.1.1 Time travels 152
2.2.1.2 The burnout of the hummingbird (deficit, overflow, responsibility and catastrophe) (a cautionary tail) 154
2.2.1.3 Against the sovereign scheme and its world 155
2.2.2 Challenges in Transition 158
2.2.2.1 Project Transition 158
2.2.2.2 The two issues of our age: Democracy for Climate? 159
2.2.2.3 To Chantal (États généraux) 160
2.2.2.4 Thinking in Transition 163
2.2.2.5 Transitions in the time of pandemic 166
2.2.2.6 L’autre fin de l’histoire 169
2.2.2.7 The Democracy Mystique 170
2.2.2.8 Participatory inclusive deliberative democracy 173
2.3 Science and politics: divides and alternatives (making sense together) 176
2.3.1 Introducing the courage of alternatives 176
2.3.2 Openness to the worlds: towards alternatives 179
2.3.2.1 The cosmopolitical question 179
2.3.2.2 Political and cosmopolitical epistemologies 180
2.3.2.3 Precautionary principle and regime change 182
Inter-section 3 The Other Europes 185
Book III Institutions and Innovations of Value 191
Europe of values 191
3.1 Institutionalizing ethics: the value of ethicization 195
3.2 “Ethics of” 199
3.2.1 Addendum: the other ethicization 201
3.3 Europocene 202
3.3.1 The Anthropocene Misunderstanding: what’s in a name and how to make the most of it 202
3.3.2 The Question of Europe 204
Inter-section 4 For Love 207
Book IV We Have Never Been Human 211
Preliminaries: Ethics, Transitions, and something out of sight 211
4.1 Human dignity, I write your name (touchstone) 215
4.1.1 The section in brief 215
4.1.2 The inquiry is underway 215
4.1.3 Human dignity and how did we get here? 220
4.1.4 Conclusions 225
4.2. Portrait-robot
(breaking through the artificialities of intelligence and of free will) 227
4.3 Human too human (Ecce homo) (us) (last dialogue of Estella and Sophy) 229
4.3.1 Epilogue 230
4.4 Scriptures (changing life) (the code) (the typewriter and the book of life) 232
4.4.1 The ethical framework 235
4.4.2 Political epistemologies 235
4.4.3 Ethics Governance 236
4.4.4 The other code… Towards the world - Hacking, Designing, Making 238
4.5 Letter to Apolline (transhumanism) 242
4.6 The end 247
Bibliography 253
Table of Epigraphs 267
Index 271
