Springer Risks and Regulation of New Technologies (Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research)

How should we proceed with advanced research of humanities and social sciences in collaboration? What are the pressing issues of this new trend in a cataclysmic time for civilization? This book, originated with a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Topic-Setting Program, addresses these challenging questions in four parts for innovating twenty-first-century humanities and social sciences. It broadens the horizon for reviewing multi-disciplinary landscapes of risks and regulation of new technologies by focusing on paradigmatic cases from the fields of life and environment. Here, genome editing for reproductive treatment and renewable energy under the constraint of climate change in Japanese and global contexts are involved. The volume comprises a combination of topics and aspects such as public policy and philosophy of science, medicine and law, climate ethics, and the economics of electricity. This edited collection will thus motivate forward-thinking readers across the diverse spectrum of social sciences and humanities to survey themes of their own interests in multi-disciplinary studies. In so doing, they can explore the evolving frontiers of those disciplines and the depths of individual contributions by experts in philosophy, ethics, law, economics, and science, technology, and society (STS), including bioscience. From the Back Cover How should we proceed with advanced research of humanities and social sciences in collaboration? What are the pressing issues of this new trend in a cataclysmic time for civilization? This book, originated with a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Topic-Setting Program, addresses these challenging questions in four parts for innovating twenty-first-century humanities and social sciences. It broadens the horizon for reviewing multi-disciplinary landscapes of risks and regulation of new technologies by focusing on paradigmatic cases from the fields of life and environment. Here, genome editing for reproductive treatment and renewable energy under the constraint of climate change in Japanese and global contexts are involved. The volume comprises a combination of topics and aspects such as public policy and philosophy of science, medicine and law, climate ethics, and the economics of electricity. This edited collection will thus motivate forward-thinking readers across the diverse spectrum of social sciences and humanities to survey themes of their own interests in multi-disciplinary studies. In so doing, they can explore the evolving frontiers of those disciplines and the depths of individual contributions by experts in philosophy, ethics, law, economics, and science, technology, and society (STS), including bioscience. About the Author Tsuyoshi Matsuda  Tsuyoshi Matsuda is the project leader of ‘Meta-science and Technology Project: Methodology, Ethics and Policy from a Comprehensive Viewpoint’ and a professor of philosophy and environmental ethics in the Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, a position he has held since 2003. He received his Ph.D. from Osnabrück University in 1989 as a scholar in the German scientific exchange program, majoring in philosophy and environmental ethics. After working for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science as a special researcher at Kyoto University, he was with the Kyushu Institute of Design from 1992 to 1997, then joined the faculty of Kobe University in 1997. He was the vice-dean of the Graduate School of Humanities at Kobe University from 2008 to 2010 and the Vice-Dean of the Organization for Advanced and Integrated Research at Kobe University from 2020. He was a visiting researcher at the Leibniz-Archive of the State Library of Niedersachsen (2000, an award of a German scientific exchange scholarship). He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Japanese Leibniz Society and the board of the Kansai Philosophical Association. He also serves as the