developed and discussed within the project Engineering Life: An interdisciplinary
approach to the ethics of synthetic biology. Th e project was funded by the German
Ministry of Research and Education (grant nr. 01GP1003). Th e following contributors
were part of this project. In the order of appearance: Joachim Boldt, Oliver Müller,
Harald Matern, Jens Ried, Matthias Braun, Peter Dabrock, Tobias Eichinger, Jürgen
Robienski, Jürgen Simon, Rainer Paslack, Harald K?nig, Daniel Frank, Reinhard
Heil, Christopher Coenen.
Jan C. Schmidt, Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Johannes Achatz, I?igo de Miguel
Beriain, Sacha Loeve, Christoph Th en, Bernd Giese, Henning Wigger, Christian
Pade, Arnim von Gleich joined us at diff erent occasions, fi rst and foremost our
concluding conference at Freiburg University, Germany.
I’d like to thank the all the project partners and contributors for their cooperation.
I am grateful to the German Ministry of Research and Education for giving us all
the opportunity to engage in philosophical, ethical, legal, and social science research
relating to synthetic biology. I’d also like to thank the Centre for Biological
Signalling Studies (BIOSS) at Freiburg University for their kind support.
Special thanks to Susan Keller for skillfully adjusting the English language style,
grammar and spelling in this volume, and to Sebastian H?pfl for accurately unifying
bibliography styles, citations, and layout.