Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture (2002) (The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics #3)

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Synopsis
Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put up for discussion. This constantly confronts us with new moral problems and dilemmas. In discussion with other approaches this book argues that pragmatism, with its strong emphasis on the interaction between technology and values, gives us both procedural help and stresses the importance of living and cooperating together in tackling these problems and dilemmas. The issues in this book include the interaction of technology and ethics, the status of pragmatism, the concept of practice, and discourse ethics and deliberative democracy. It has an interactive design, with original contributions alternating with critical comments. The book is of interest for students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of bioethics, animal ethics, environmental ethics, pragmatist philosophy and science and technology studies.
Copyright:
2002

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9789401003018
Related ISBNs:
9781402009877
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
F.W. Jozef Keulartz
Edited by:
Michiel Korthals
Edited by:
M. Schermer
Edited by:
T.E. Swierstra

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