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Symposium on Ethics, Societal, Environmental and
Legal Implications of Nanotechnology (Nano
Ethics)
Nano Ethics
Symposium is an important aspect of the International Congress
of Nanotechnology 2005.
In this
symposium, we will focus on societal, ethical, environmental and
legal issues raised by nanotechnology, including reflections on:
* Privacy and Security
* Nanomaterial Toxicology
* Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cogni technologies
* Government Regulations and Policies
* Scientific Integrity and Liberty
* Nano-divide
* Environmental Sustainability
* Legal and Ethical theories
* and other related topics
Co-Chairs:
Professor
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, is a Professor of Social and
Political Philosophy at the École Polytechnique, Paris. He is
the Director of research at the C.N.R.S. (Philosophy) and the
Director of C.R.E.A. (Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie
Appliquée), the philosophical research group of the École
Polytechnique, which he founded in 1982. At Stanford University,
he is a researcher at the Study of Language and Information (C.S.L.I.)
Professor Dupuy is by courtesy a Professor of Political Science.
In his book The Mechanization of the Mind, Jean-Pierre Dupuy
explains how the founders of cybernetics laid the foundations
not only for cognitive science, but also artificial
intelligence, and foreshadowed the development of chaos theory,
complexity theory, and other scientific and philosophical
breakthroughs.
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D., Resarch Professor of
Bioethics at Chicago-Kent College of Law, directs the Institute
on Biotechnology and the Human Future and its affiliated Center
on Nanotechnology and Society at the Illinois Institute of
Technology. He is also Chairman of the Centre for Bioethics and
Public Policy (London, UK). Cameron founded the journal
Ethics and Medicine in 1983 and is widely recognized as a
commentator on ethics and policy issues in emerging technologies
with appearances on ABC Nightline, CNN, PBS Frontline, and the
BBC. His books include The New Medicine: Life and Death After
Hippocrates (Chicago: Bioethics Press, repr. 2001), and
(edited, with M. Ellen Mitchell) An Agenda for Nano and
Society (forthcoming, 2006). He has also represented the
United States as bioethics advisor on the U.S. delegation to the
United Nations General Assembly meeting to consider a convention
on human cloning
CALL FOR PAPERS
Original
research papers on societal, ethical, environmental and
legal issues raised by nanotechnology are invited for submission to the
International Congress of Nanotechnology (ICNT) 2005.
The deadline for abstract submission is June 15, 2005.
For more information on preparing the abstracts, please
visit Abstracts. Abstract can be
submitted online:
http://nanotechcongress.com/abstract-online.htm
For speaking opportunity at one of the above symposia,
please visit Speaking Opportunity, or send an email to the
Program Director:
program@ianano.org
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