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S. Rainey
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Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a key concept in current discourses concerning research governance and policy. The practice of ethics management in the European Union (EU) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP) utilises a concept of
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Objective: We describe current practices of ethics-related data governance in large neuro-ICT projects, identify gaps in current practice, and put forward recommendations on how to collaborate ethically in complex regulatory and normative contexts. Methods: We undertake a survey
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Neuroprosthetic speech technologies are in development for patients suffering profound paralysis, such as can result from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. These patients would be unable to speak without intervention, but with neurotechnology can be offered the chance to communicate
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Accompanying technology development in the Human Brain Project
From foresight to ethics management
This paper addresses the question of managing the existential risk potential of general Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the more near-term yet hazardous and disruptive implications of specialised AI, from the perspective of a particular research project that could make a
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Civil Society Organisations in Research
A Literature-Based Typology
This article explores literatures from various sources to highlight and understand differences among key players surrounding the perceived nature and role of civil society in research from different literature streams. Including Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in research acti
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The possibilities for the simulation of consciousness are convincingly critiqued by Chinese Room type arguments. This paper discusses what meaning the simulation of consciousness could have anyway, in terms of objectivity and subjectivity. In terms of an attempt to create in sili
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The artificial other can raise anxiety, especially in terms of intimacy, as it highlights the tenuous nature of takenfor-granted relations in general. In Marxism, commodity-fetish arises when economic actors perceive one another solely in terms of the capital and commodity relati
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This paper deploys elements of the philosophy of information (PoI) in order to explore ideas of dialogical governance. Dialogue in the governance of contentious issues is at least partly a response to the recognition of pluralism among perspectives on various issues. This recogni
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Governance theory and practice
The case of Europe
European political life involves a productive tension between liberalist and communitarian tendencies. This 'Libero-Communitarianism' in the EU is the backdrop to various governance policies and potentials. This chapter develops a broad analysis of the governance setting in Europ
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Experience and consciousness
Concepts from the outside in
The ‘feel’ of driving a Porsche is unlike that of seeing red (O’Regan, J. Noë, A., 2000). Sensorimotor theory and enactivism hold that looking for mechanisms or something ‘inside the head’ is a mistake in accounting for this. Consciousness does not ‘lie behind’ experience and act
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This paper notes two problems in Brandom's approach to communicative understanding. Together, they undermine the rational and the pragmatic credentials of his project. Logic can supply the 'oughts' when it comes to theoretical reason. The content of belief b can entail belief c s
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In this paper, the emergence of consciousness is explained in terms of interpretation and community. It draws contrasts between objects and conscious beings in order to show that differences between objects and conscious beings hinge on different types of interpretation. These di
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Competing methodologies
Possibilities from a point of view
This chapter aims to construct a basis to move toward addressing lacunae in governance approaches in a way that is not merely ad hoc but rather is grounded in theory and that can affect practice in a positive way. Essential to this is the establishing of a problem clearly defined
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The more integrated technology becomes in our everyday lives and businesses, the more vital it grows that its applications are utilized in an ethical and appropriate way. Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development combines multiple perspectives on ethical backgrounds
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Proceduralism has been a major philosophical stream that gathers some outstanding philosophers, such as John Rawls or Jürgen Habermas. The general idea of proceduralism, especially in the practical domains of morals, law and communication, comes from the need to provide some rati
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In trying to enhance, improve or perfect ourselves through technological intervention, we can risk the very idea of a practical identity and selfpossession. In thinking of the enhancement, improvement or perfection of the body through technological interventions, we ought to ackn
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Turing and the real girl
Thinking, agency and recognition
In 1950 Alan Turing asked whether machines could think. This question has been vigorously debated since, and its relevance for machine intelligence, or even agency, continues to provoke interdisciplinary debate. In fact, Turing's next step in his paper is to ask a far more nuance
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to criticise ad hoc approaches to ethics in research and development in technology as descriptive and non-ethical, and based upon a narrow conception of rationality. Design/methodology/approach – The approach deploys a theory of normativity
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