Part 1. Socio-humane Sciences of New Technology
1.Wolff(Oxford):Risk and the Regulation of New Technology
2.Matsuda( Kobe): The Gradation of the Causation and the Responsibility focusing on "Omission"
3.Otsuka(Kyoto):Ockham's Proportionality: A Model Selection Criterion for Levels of Explanation
Part 2. Reproductive Technology and Life
4.Ishi(Hokkaido):Enforcing legislation on reproductive medicine with uncertainty via a broad social consensus 5.Yan(Dalian) :Gene Editing Baby in China: From the Perspective of Responsible Research and Innovation 6.Itamochi(Kobe) :Posthumously Conceived Children and Succession from Perspective of Law
7.Chatani(Kobe):Aristotle and Bioethics 8.Naka(Kobe):Reinterpreting Motherhood: Separating Being a "Mother" from Giving Birth
Part 3. Environmental Technology
9.Ott(Kiel):Domains of Climate Ethics
10.Yanagawa(Kobe):Electricity Market Reform in Japan: Fair Competition and Renewable Energy 11.Takeuchi(Kobe):Renewable energy development in Japan
12.Hoshi(Kobe):Adverse effects of pesticides on regional biodiversity and their mechanisms
13.Fujiki(Kobe City) Reconsidering Precautionary Attitudes and Sin of Omission for Emerging Technologies: Geoengineering and Gene Drive
Part 4. Science and Society
14.Shineha(Tokyo, Seijo):Exploring the contexts of ELSI and RRI in Japan: Case studies in dual-use, regenerative medicine, and nanotechnology
15.Tsukahara(Kobe):Global climate change and uncertainty: An examination from the history of science
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 chief editor of the Journal of Innovative Ethics (Kobe University).
Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan Wolff is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Political Philosophy, and a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. He was formerly the Blavatnik Chair in Public Policy at the School, and before that was professor of philosophy and dean of arts and humanities at University College London. He is currently developing a new research programme on revitalising democracy and civil society, in accordance with the aims of the Alfred Landecker Professorship. His other current work largely concerns equality, disadvantage, social justice, and poverty, as well as applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs, which he has discussed in his books Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2011) and The Human Right to Health (Norton, 2012). His most recent book is An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Norton, 2018).