Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments?

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Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books (2007)
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This volume presents a unique collection of authors who generally maintain that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring new ethical principles into social awareness.

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Q175.35.S346 2007

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9781591025375

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Sex, medicine, and ethics.Vern L. Bcillocigh
The ethics of science and the science of ethics.Mario Bcinge
Fringe psychotherapies.Barry L. Beyerstein
What's the problem?Derek Bolton
The common ground between science and morality.Donald B. Calne
Policy, ethics, belief, and morality.Tom Flynn
From human-racism to personhood.James J. Hughes
Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates.Richard T. Hull & Elaine M. Hull
Capital punishment and homicide: Econometric Ilusions.Ted Goertzel
Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences.David R. Koepsell
Is religion compatible with science and ethics?Paul Kurtz
The right to privacy.Paul Kurtz
The assault on scientific mental health.Scott O. Lilienfeld
Stem cell research.Ronald A. Lindsay
The Science of Ethics.Laura Purdy
Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine.John Shook
Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion.James Stacey Taylor
On the naturalistic fallacy.John Teehan

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