Ambivalences of Creating Life

Chapter 2 The Synthetic Nature of Biology

Chapter 3 Making-of Synthetic Biology: The European CyanoFactory Research Consortium

Chapter 4 Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration: Promises and Societal Implications

Chapter 5 “First Species Whose Parent Is a Computer”—Synthetic Biology as Technoscience, Colonizing Futures, and the Problem of the Digital

Chapter 6 “Some Kind of Genetic Engineering… Only One Step Further”—Public Perceptions of Synthetic Biology in Austria

Chapter 7 Synthetic Biology in the Press

Chapter 8 Let’s Talk About… Synthetic Biology—Emerging Technologies and the Public

Chapter 9 Public Engagement in Synthetic Biology: “Experts”, “Diplomats” and the Creativity of “Idiots”

Chapter 10 Early Engagement with Synthetic Biology in the Netherlands—Initiatives by the Rathenau Instituut

Chapter 11 A Critical Participatory Approach to the Evaluation of Synthetic Biology

Chapter 12 Synthetic Biology—Playing Games?

Chapter 13 Metaphors of Life: Reflections on Metaphors in the Debate on Synthetic Biology

Chapter 14 Debasement of Life? A Critical Review of Some Conceptual and Ethical Objections to Synthetic Biology

Chapter 15 Engineers of Life? A Critical Examination of the Concept of Life in the Debate on Synthetic Biology

Chapter 16 Synthetic Biology and the Argument from Continuity with Established Technologies

Chapter 17 Synthetic Biology Between Engineering and Natural Science. A Hermeneutic Methodology for Laboratory Research Practice

Chapter 18 Epistemological Implications of Synthetic Biology: A Heideggerian Perspective