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dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Jan Cornelius
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T04:00:45Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T04:00:45Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2022-03-02T11:24:37Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53177
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78931
dc.description.abstractTechnology Assessment (TA) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with emerging, technology-induced societal problems for the purpose of shaping technology and technological development. TA is a perfect case for problem-oriented interdisciplinarity at the science-society interface. This chapter goes further and sheds light on a specific approach in TA, namely Prospective Technology Assessment (ProTA), which includes critical-reflexive elements in a prospective or anticipatory assessment of science and technology in very early phases of new and emerging knowledge fields; in this light ProTA can also be seen as an assessment of science (Liebert/Schmidt 2010). ProTA complements and extends well-established methods of Technology Assessment that have been used in policy consultancy from the late 1960s on. Applications of this approach to the field of synthetic/systems biology illustrate interdisciplinary core elements of Prospective Technology Assessment. It turns out that the critical-reflexive concept of interdisciplinarity incorporated in ProTA can be regarded as meta-instrumentalist: Thus ProTA contributes to the self-critique and self-reflexivity of the science/technology system.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherHistory of Science; History of Technology; Philosophy of Technology; Scientific Ethics; Synthetic Biology
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society
dc.titleChapter 8 Technology and the future
dc.title.alternativeAdvancing prospective technology assessment
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315387109-9
oapen.relation.isPublishedByfa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookPhilosophy of Interdisciplinarity
oapen.relation.isbn9781138230071
oapen.relation.isbn9781032118468
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages24
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