Abstract

This chapter discusses epistemic pluralism for the purposes of transparency and more specifically by stressing two quality criteria specific to the PTA: the inter‐ and intra‐disciplinary epistemic pluralisms. The epistemic pluralism relates more particularly to the plurality of beliefs in relation to truth. In practice, citizens convened to a participatory technology assessment (PTA) experience must play it by ear, and manage to personally deliberate whilst respecting certain constraints of collective deliberation, without being tightly guided by certain principles helping to conduct an ethical evaluation. The roles such as evaluation of technical consequences and options, extension of the perspective for research and development policy, scheduling, evaluation of consequences and options, mapping of the public scientific controversies, more interactive surveys, reframing the debate, mediation, opinions about policies dedicated to new technological fields, new compared forms of governance facilitate or select certain argumentative designs as appropriate.