Science and ethics :
Science and ethics : can science help us make wise moral judgments? /
edited by Paul Kurtz with the assistance of David Koepsell.
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
- 359 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
What is the relationship among science, reason, and ethics? / The ethics of science and the science of ethics / Bioethics and stem cell research -- Stem cell research : an approach to bioethics based on scientific naturalism / Attack of the anti-cloners : biogenetic engineering and self-improvement / Freedom of scientific research / Stem cell research : the failure of bioethics / Everybody must get cloned : ideological objections do not hold up / The embryo in stem cell research and abortion -- The moral status of the human embryo : the twinning argument / Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates : a scientific and philosophical update / Parallels between the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and abortion / Paul Kurtz -- Mario Bunge -- Ronald A. Lindsay -- Arthur Caplan -- Paul Kurtz -- Don Marquis -- David J. Triggle -- Berit Brogaard -- Richard T. Hull Elaine M. Hull -- Marin Gillis. 1. 2. [pt]. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. [pt]. 2. 8. 9. and 10. Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- The right to privacy / Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine / Organ transplants, sexuality, and human enhancement -- Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion / Sex, medicine, and ethics : some quandaries / From human-racism to personhood : humanism after human nature / Deterrence and capital punishment -- Getting tough on crime : what does it mean? / Capital punishment and homicide : sociological realities and econometric illusions / Psychiatry and psychotherapy -- Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" / What's the problem? : a response to secular humanism and scientific psychiatry / The assault on scientific mental health : ethical implications / Fringe psychotherapies : the public at risk / Paul Kurtz -- John Shook -- James Stacey Taylor -- Vern L. Bullough -- James Hughes -- Richard Taylor -- Ted Goertzel -- Thomas Szasz -- Derek Bolton -- Scott O. Lilienfeld -- Barry L. Beyerstein. [pt]. 3. 11. 12. [pt]. 4. 13. 14. 15. [pt]. 5. 16. 17. [pt]. 6. 18. 19. 20. 21. Science, religion, and ethics -- Science and religion : no irenics here / Is religion compatible with science and ethics? : a critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Two magisteria / The science of ethics / Policy, ethics, belief, and morality / Naturalistic ethics -- Scientific naturalistic ethics : weird science and pseudo-ethics? / On the naturalistic fallacy : a conceptual basis for evolutionary ethics / Biology, social science, common sense -- The common ground between science and morality : a biological perspective / Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences / Defending science, within reason : the critical common-sensist manifesto / Fred Wilson -- Paul Kurtz -- Laura Purdy -- Tom Flynn -- William A. Rottschaefer -- Christopher diCarlo John Teehan -- Donald B. Calne -- David R. Koepsell -- Susan Haack. [pt]. 7. 22. 23. 24. 25. [pt]. 8. 26. 27. and [pt]. 9. 28. 29. 30.
9781591025375 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
2011290477
101515511 DNLM
Science--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethical Issues.
Science--ethics.
Ethik.
Naturwissenschaften.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Q175.35 / .S346 2007
170
2009 K-739 WB 60 / S4152 2007
Includes bibliographical references.
What is the relationship among science, reason, and ethics? / The ethics of science and the science of ethics / Bioethics and stem cell research -- Stem cell research : an approach to bioethics based on scientific naturalism / Attack of the anti-cloners : biogenetic engineering and self-improvement / Freedom of scientific research / Stem cell research : the failure of bioethics / Everybody must get cloned : ideological objections do not hold up / The embryo in stem cell research and abortion -- The moral status of the human embryo : the twinning argument / Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates : a scientific and philosophical update / Parallels between the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and abortion / Paul Kurtz -- Mario Bunge -- Ronald A. Lindsay -- Arthur Caplan -- Paul Kurtz -- Don Marquis -- David J. Triggle -- Berit Brogaard -- Richard T. Hull Elaine M. Hull -- Marin Gillis. 1. 2. [pt]. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. [pt]. 2. 8. 9. and 10. Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- The right to privacy / Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine / Organ transplants, sexuality, and human enhancement -- Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion / Sex, medicine, and ethics : some quandaries / From human-racism to personhood : humanism after human nature / Deterrence and capital punishment -- Getting tough on crime : what does it mean? / Capital punishment and homicide : sociological realities and econometric illusions / Psychiatry and psychotherapy -- Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" / What's the problem? : a response to secular humanism and scientific psychiatry / The assault on scientific mental health : ethical implications / Fringe psychotherapies : the public at risk / Paul Kurtz -- John Shook -- James Stacey Taylor -- Vern L. Bullough -- James Hughes -- Richard Taylor -- Ted Goertzel -- Thomas Szasz -- Derek Bolton -- Scott O. Lilienfeld -- Barry L. Beyerstein. [pt]. 3. 11. 12. [pt]. 4. 13. 14. 15. [pt]. 5. 16. 17. [pt]. 6. 18. 19. 20. 21. Science, religion, and ethics -- Science and religion : no irenics here / Is religion compatible with science and ethics? : a critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Two magisteria / The science of ethics / Policy, ethics, belief, and morality / Naturalistic ethics -- Scientific naturalistic ethics : weird science and pseudo-ethics? / On the naturalistic fallacy : a conceptual basis for evolutionary ethics / Biology, social science, common sense -- The common ground between science and morality : a biological perspective / Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences / Defending science, within reason : the critical common-sensist manifesto / Fred Wilson -- Paul Kurtz -- Laura Purdy -- Tom Flynn -- William A. Rottschaefer -- Christopher diCarlo John Teehan -- Donald B. Calne -- David R. Koepsell -- Susan Haack. [pt]. 7. 22. 23. 24. 25. [pt]. 8. 26. 27. and [pt]. 9. 28. 29. 30.
9781591025375 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
2011290477
101515511 DNLM
Science--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethical Issues.
Science--ethics.
Ethik.
Naturwissenschaften.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Q175.35 / .S346 2007
170
2009 K-739 WB 60 / S4152 2007