"Assessing Flemish citizens' moral argumentations on nanotechnologies: an incentive to reconsider the interactive Technology Assessment approach to new and emerging technologies"@en . "STiS 2008"@en . "University of Antwerp"@en . "Michiel van Oudheusden"@en . "Title: Assessing Flemish citizens' moral argumentations on nanotechnologies: an incentive to reconsider the interactive Technology Assessment approach to new and emerging technologies Author(s): Michiel van Oudheusden Affiliation: University of Antwerp Presented At: STiS 2008 Primary Topic Area: Ethics and S&T"@en . "This article assesses Flemish citizens\u2019 moral arguments on the emergence of nanotechnologies as discerned in two citizens\u2019 panels in the Interactive Technology Assessment project \u2018Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow\u2019s Society\u2019, in which the authors are involved. It finds that citizens express enthusiasm, skepticism and anxiety \u2013 and thus ambivalence \u2013 towards nanotechnologies, and that certain ambiguities prevail in citizens\u2019 usage of terms such as privacy and autonomy and in their weighing of moral claims and counterclaims. To do justice to the complexity of how citizens make sense of technology and related issues, the authors connect the emerged values to three clusters of ethical principles: well-being, dignity, and fairness. These principles are rooted in several normative theories including consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. In addition, the authors make concrete suggestions to rethink the rational consensus model of deliberation on which ITA is based, opting for an approach that treats citizens\u2019 undecided and dual responses to new technologies as a creative resource rather than as a deficit that needs to be solved."@en . . . "Title: Assessing Flemish citizens' moral argumentations on nanotechnologies: an incentive to reconsider the interactive Technology Assessment approach to new and emerging technologies Author(s): Michiel van Oudheusden Affiliation: University of Antwerp Presented At: STiS 2008 Primary Topic Area: Ethics and S&T"@en .