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Scientists and their responsibility

Title
Scientists and their responsibility / William R. Shea and Beat Sitter, editors.
Publication
Canton, MA : Watson Pub. International, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Shea, William R.
  • Sitter-Liver, Beat, 1939-
Description
xii, 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Science > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Science
  • Ethics
  • Science
  • sciences (philosophy)
  • science (modern discipline)
  • Science > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Wissenschaftsethik
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Naturwissenschaften
  • Naturwissenschaftler
  • Verantwortung
  • Sciences > Aspect social
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Natural and unnatural history : biological diversity and genetic engineering / Robert K. Colwell -- Ethics of nature / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Should science be supervised, and if so by whom? / Marcello Pera -- Ecological theories and ethical imperatives : can ecology provide a scientific justification for the ethics of environmental protection? / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- In defence of nonanthropocentrism in environmental ethics / Beat Sitter -- What does it mean to be responsible and free? : a philosopher's viewpoint / Gerhard Seel -- Should science provide an image of the world? / Catherine Chevalley -- The epistemology of the opposition to science / Yehuda Elkana.
  • The epistemology of the disillusionment with science / William R. Shea -- Responsibility : the genuine ground for the regulation of a free science / Evandro Agazzi -- Should society make laws governing scientific research? / Peter Saladin -- Freedom of research and basic rights / Andrea Degginger -- Ethics and the ordinary molecular biologist / Alex Mauron -- Molecular biology and the ordinary ethicist / Reinhard Löw -- Models of medicine : from a biomechanical to a biopsychosocial view / Hannes Pauli -- Moral obligation in biological research : a theological perspective / Franz Furger -- Robots for Noah's ark : ethical implications of building robots / Christof W. Burckhardt.
  • Ethics and the interaction among technology, culture, and political systems / Adrian W. Roth -- Freedom and responsibility in an information-oriented society / Hiroshi Inose -- The information-oriented society and the "limits of growth" / Bruno Messerli.
ISBN
  • 0881350540
  • 9780881350548
LCCN
89005249
OCLC
  • ocm19128946
  • 19128946
  • SCSB-1889250
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library