Imagining the Good Life under Uncertainty with Biology & Technology

How do we know what the right thing to do is under uncertainty? More specifically, in the quest to innovate for societal goals such as sustainability, or emancipation, how do we know we are not just providing another technofix?

Over the past years, an unlikely group of scholars have gathered around these questions and variations thereof, in the context of biology, its intersection with technology, with promises of sustainability.

-      How can we imagine sustainable futures with technologies when they might disrupt essential parts of our lives, and have unforeseen effects? And who gets to imagine sustainable futures?

-      What can we learn from interdisciplinary collaborations about the direction of research and the formulation of ethical and philosophical frameworks?

-      How are advances in ethics and philosophy help us conceptualize a good life, if not the good life?

This symposium critically examines new directions for the ethics of technology, with a focus on biology and technology.