Abstract
Nanotechnology is an enabling technology that is poised to create a huge impact in the various spheres of human concerns such as the geopolitical, business, education, legal, military, environment, health, and medical domains. With its rapid and inevitable development, it becomes imperative not only to deliberate on its ethical and social implications but likewise examine the ontological and epistemological issues and difficulties underlying this fledgling field. This paper will explore the novelty, distinctiveness, interdisciplinarity, and incommensurability issues in nanotechnology. More specifically, it will center on the uniqueness of the field as it delves into the claims regarding dissolution of borders and boundaries in the sciences, risk, complexity, and uncertainty factors and selected foundational issues in nanotechnology. It shall examine how the perceived melting of boundaries, unforeseen horizons, and the lack of a stable foundation in nanotechnology will pose some challenges and opportunities to education and research particularly in science, engineering, and the humanities.
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