Ethical & Legal Tools to Manage Rapidly Evolving Technology or "The Pacing Project"

The Ethical & Legal Tools to Manage Rapidly Evolving Technology or "The Pacing Project" is led by:

Lincoln Professors Braden Allenby, Gary Marchant, Joseph Herket

In a systematic, focused, on-going and high profile manner, this program seeks to address the

problem of the inability of existing policy, ethical and legal tools to keep pace with rapidly emerging technologies in areas such as genetics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, cognitive sciences and enhancement technology.


Below is a list of Program Conferences/ Workshops, Working Papers, and Upcoming Events related to this Center's Program:

Upcoming Events

PBS special will be aired in 2010 or 2011 regarding this program.

A Book will be published regarding the research completed for this program.

Working Papers


Working Paper


THE METAPHYSICS OF THE ANTHROPOGENIC EARTH PART I: INTEGRATIVE COGNITIVISM

 

 

Program Conferences / Workshops

Title: Picking up the Pace: Pacing Law & Ethics w/ Science & Technology Conference

Description: Scholars from around the world participated in an ASU conference on Dec. 4-5, 2008, debating whether law and ethics are capable of keeping pace with science and technology and seeking potential solutions for the challenges created by the growing gap. The conference, sponsored by ASU's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, was organized by Gary Marchant, Executive Director of the College of Law's Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, and Lincoln's Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics. Other organizers included Joe Herkert, Lincoln's Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology, and Brad Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics.
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