Dual Use Science and Technology, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction

ISBN-13: 9783319926056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 122 str.

Seumas Miller

Recenzje

"Seumas Miller's book delivers in spades: It is a most interesting and thought-provoking volume, jam-packed with ideas. ... this is by far the best work I have read on dual use and I recommend it without reservation."(John Forge, Metascience, September, 2018)

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.- 1. Introduction,- 2. Concept of Dual Use.- 3. Collective Knowledge and Collective Ignorance.- 4. Collective Responsibility.- 5. Chemical Industry.- 6. Nuclear Industry.- 7. Cyber-technology.- 8. Biological Sciences .- 9. Conclusion.- Index.

O autorze

Seumas Miller holds research positions at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, and the Cooperative Research Centre in Cybersecurity at Charles Sturt University, the 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books, including Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences (Springer 2008), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism (Blackwell, 2009), The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions (CUP, 2010), Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force (OUP, 2016, and Institutional Corruption (CUP, 2017).