Dr. Simone Arnaldi is a sociologist. His research interests focus on the way communicative processes affect the production and diffusion of social representations of the future, as well as the role of such representations in orienting social action and constructing social order. Since 2007, Simone is Research Fellow and Research Staff Coordinator at the Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification (CIGA),University of Padua, Italy. He studies the way images of future technologies affect innovation discourse and practice, and, in general, the relationships between science, technology, and society. His essays have been published in several books and his articles have appeared in national and international journals, like «Futures», «FutureTakes», «Futuribili», «Innovation», «International Journal of Nanotechnology», «Research in Social Change», «Sociologia», «Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology». Since 2009, he is member of the Advisory Board of «Research in Social Change». He teaches sociology at the University of Trieste (Italy) and he lectures at the European Master in Bioethics of the Universities of Leuven, Nijmegen and Pauda. He has taught foresight for social and educational systems (postgraduate) at the Universities of Padua (Italy) and Trieste (Italy), as well as at the School of pf Public Administration of the Italian Ministry of Interior. He is currently the Director of the Jacques Maritain Institute, a non-profit cultural and research centre based in the Italian town of Trieste.
Books
L'immaginazione creatrice. Nanotecnologie e società fra presente e futuro [The creative imagination. Nanotechnology and society between present and future] (2011)
Quali effetti avranno sull'uomo e sull'ambiente le nanotecnologie e i prodotti che le incorporano? Una...
Innovazioni in corso. Il dibattito sulle nanotecnologie fra diritto, etica, e società [Innovations in progress. Law, ethics and society in the public debate on nanotechnology] (with Andrea Lorenzet) (2010)
Le nanotecnologie stanno uscendo dai laboratori, e portano con sé innovazioni, conoscenze inedite, rischi e...
Articles
Ordering technology, excluding society: the division of labour and sociotechnical order in images of converging technologies, International Journal of Nanotechnology (2010)
The convergence of nanotechnology with bio- and info- technologies and cognitive sciences (NBIC) and its...
Crete Principles on Access to Nanotechnologies for Human Health (with Piera Poletti and Mariassunta Piccinni), Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology (2009)
The present document was developed by a group of scholars from law, medicine, political science,...
Nanotechnologies and Equal Access to Healthcare (with Mariassunta Piccinni), Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology (2009)
This editorial introduces a collection of articles that is a collaborative effort to discuss the...
Unpublished Papers
The end of history and the search for perfection. Conflicting teleologies of transhumanism and (neo)liberal democracy, Neoliberalism and Technoscience. Critical Assessments (2012)
This chapter will explore the conflicts between the neoliberal and transhumast discourses, as well as...
Presentations
Preliminary findings about stakeholder opinions on nanotechnology regulation in Italy and France: an overview (with Mariassunta Piccinni, Giorgia Guerra, and Scarcelli Cosimo Marco), Third Biennial Conference of the European Consortium on Political Research, Standing Group on Regulatory Governance “Regulation in an Age of Crisis” (2010)
The paper presents the preliminary results of a research about stakeholders’ opinions on nanotechnology regulation...