Introduction

Editorial Board

Editors
Laura Cabrera, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Mario Kaiser, PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland
Colin Milburn, PhD, UC Davis, USA
Martin Mullins, PhD, University of Limerick, Ireland
John Weckert, PhD (Founding Editor), Charles Sturt University, Australia
Fern Wickson, PhD, GenØk Centre for Biosafety, Norway

Consulting Editors
Davis Baird, PhD, University of South Carolina, USA
Rafael Capurro, PhD, Director, International Center for Information Ethics, Germany
James Moor, PhD, Dartmouth College, USA
Pieter E. Vermaas, PhD, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Editorial Board Members
Jürgen Altmann, PhD, Dortmund University, Germany
Fritz Allhoff, PhD, Western Michigan University, USA
David Benatar, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, PhD, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Rosalyn W. Berne, PhD, University of Virginia, USA
Christopher Bosso, PhD, Northeastern University, USA
Philip Brey, PhD, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Frans W.A. Brom, PhD, Scientific Council for Government Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Ruth Chadwick, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
Stephen Clarke, PhD, Charles Sturt University, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, PhD, l’Ecole Polytechnique, France
Ursula Gibson, PhD, Dartmouth College, USA
Alexei Grinbaum, PhD, CEA-Saclay, France
Armin Grunwald, PhD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Gu Su, PhD, Nanjing University, China
David Guston, PhD, Arizona State University, USA
Soraj Hongladarom, PhD, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Chennupati Jagadish, PhD, Australian National University, Australia
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Basel
George Khushf, PhD, University of South Carolina, USA
Harro van Lente, PhD, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Veruscka Leso, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Patrick Lin, PhD, The Nanoethics Group, USA
Sabine Maasen, PhD, Technische Universität München, Germany
Darryl Macer, PhD, UNESCO Bangkok, Thailand
Ruud ter Meulen, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Andy Miah, PhD, University of Salford, UK
Sonia E. Miller, PhD, S.E. Miller Law Firm, USA
Alfred Nordmann, PhD, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Baroness Onora O’Neill, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Julian Savulescu, PhD, Oxford University, UK
René von Schomberg, PhD, RWTH Aachen University and Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Terry Turney, PhD, CSIRO, Australia
Gregor Wolbring, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada

Aims & Scope

• Ethical, Legal, Social, and Political Aspects of emerging technologies

• Human and Animal Enhancement

• Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

• Synthetic Biology

• Neurotechnology

• Artificial Intelligence and Digital Futures

• Art-Science Interactions

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives from philosophy, social sciences, humanities, and arts

• Policy and Public Engagement in science and technology

• Global and Cultural Impacts of technological convergence