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Author : Jacob Bronowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258203960
The Impact Of Science On Ethics And Human Values.
Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439171226
Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Author : Leon N. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107043176
Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience.
Author : Batya Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1575860813
Human values--including accountability, privacy, autonomy, and respect for person--emerge from the computer systems that we build and how we choose to use them. Yet, important questions on human values and system design have remained largely unexplored. If human values are controversial, then on what basis do some values override others in the design of, for example, hardware, algorithms, and databases? Do users interact with computer systems as social actors? If so, should designers of computer persona and agents seek to build on such human tendencies, or check them? How have design decisions in hospitals, research labs, and computer corporations protected or degraded such values? This volume brings together leading researchers and system designers who take up these questions, and more.
Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691212265
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.
Author : Julius Thomas Fraser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252024761
"Over the course of history, Fraser argues, human values have served primarily not as conservative influences that promote permanence, continuity, and balance - as commonly believed - but as revolutionary forces that, in the long run, promote change by generating and sustaining certain unresolvable conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gregory R Maio
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317223320
This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom, equality, achievement, helpfulness, security, tradition, and peace. Our values are relevant to everything we do, helping us choose between careers, schools, romantic partners, places to live, things to buy, who to vote for, and much more. There is enormous public interest in the psychology of values and a growing recognition of the need for a deeper understanding of the ways in which values are embedded in our attitudes and behavior. How do they affect our well-being, our relationships with other people, our prosperity, and our environment? In his examination of these questions, Maio focuses on tests of theories about values, through observations of what people actually think and do. In the past five decades, psychological research has learned a lot about values, and this book describes what we have learned and why it is important. It provides the first overview of psychological research looking at how we mentally represent and use our values, and constitutes important reading for psychology students at all levels, as well as academics in psychology and related social and health sciences.
Author : Hugh Lacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134619757
Hugh Lacey discusses how science and values interact, with a focus on a discussion of development, and science's place in development, particularly in third world countries.
Author : Matthew J. Brown
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987673
The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosophers of science for decades. Science and Moral Imagination directly challenges the idea that science and values cannot and should not influence each other. Matthew J. Brown argues that science and values mutually influence and implicate one another, that the influence of values on science is pervasive and must be responsibly managed, and that science can and should have an influence on our values. This interplay, he explains, must be guided by accounts of scientific inquiry and value judgment that are sensitive to the complexities of their interactions. Brown presents scientific inquiry and value judgment as types of problem-solving practices and provides a new framework for thinking about how we might ethically evaluate episodes and decisions in science, while offering guidance for scientific practitioners and institutions about how they can incorporate value judgments into their work. His framework, dubbed “the ideal of moral imagination,” emphasizes the role of imagination in value judgment and the positive role that value judgment plays in science.
Author : James T. Bradley
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780817320294
An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have not been widely examined, discussed, or indeed settled. For example, robotics technology challenges the notion of personhood. Should a robot, capable of making what humans would call ethical decisions, be held responsible for those decisions and the resultant actions? Should society reward and punish robots in the same way that it does humans? Likewise, issues of safety, environmental concerns, and distributive justice arise with the increasing acceptance of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food production nanotechnology in engineering and medicine, and human gene therapy and enhancement. The problem of dual-use—when a technology can be used both to benefit and to harm—exists with virtually all new technologies but is central in the context of emerging 21st century technologies ranging from artificial intelligence and robotics to human gene-editing and brain-computer interfacing. In Re-Creating Nature: Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century, James T. Bradley addresses emerging biotechnologies with prodigious potential to benefit humankind but that are also fraught with ethical consequences. Some actually possess the power to directly alter the evolution of life on earth including human. Specifically, these topics include stem cells, synthetic biology, GMOs in agriculture, nanotechnology, bioterrorism, CRISPR gene-editing technology, three-parent babies, robotics and roboethics, artificial intelligence, and human brain research and neurotechnologies. Offering clear explanations of these various technologies, a pragmatic presentation of the conundrums involved, and questions that illuminate hypothetical situations, Bradley guides discussions of these and other thorny issues resulting from the development of new biotechnologies. He also highlights the responsibilities of scientists to conduct research in an ethical manner and the responsibilities of nonscientists to become “science literate” in the twenty-first century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004463851
Initiated by Robert Wesson, Evolution and Human Values is a collection of newly written essays designed to bring interdisciplinary insight to that area of thought where human evolution intersects with human values. The disciplines brought to bear on the subject are diverse - philosophy, psychiatry, behavioral science, biology, anthropology, psychology, biochemistry, and sociology. Yet, as organized by co-editor Patricia A. Williams, the volume falls coherently into three related sections. Entitled Evolutionary Ethics, the first section brings contemporary research to an area first explored by Herbert Spencer. Evolutionary ethics looks to the theory of evolution by natural selection to find values for human living. The second section, Evolved Ethics, discusses the evolution of language and religion and their impact on moral thought and feeling. Evolved ethics was partly Charles Darwin's subject in The Descent of Man. The last section bears the title Scientific Ethics. A nascent field, scientific ethics asks about the evolution of human nature and the implications of that nature for ethical theory and social policy. Together, the essays collected here provide important contemporary insights into what it is - and what it may be - to be human.
Author : Everett Wesley Hall
Publisher : Princeton, N.J., D. Van Nostrand Company
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4241367
Author : Jean-Pierre P. Changeux,Antonio Damasio,Wolf Singer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540298038
Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values. Until recent times, such issues were primarily fed by the thinking of philosophers, moralists and theologists, or by the findings of historians or sociologists relating to universality or variations in these values within various populations. Science has avoided this field of investigation within the confines of philosophy. Beyond the temptation to stay away from the field of knowledge science may also have felt itself unconcerned by the study of human values for a simple heuristic reason, namely the lack of tools allowing objective study. For the same reason, researchers tended to avoid the study of feelings or consciousness until, over the past two decades, this became a focus of interest for many neuroscientists. It is apparent that many questions linked to research in the field of neuroscience are now arising. The hope is that this book will help to formulate them more clearly rather than skirting them. The authors do not wish to launch a new moral philosophy, but simply to gather objective knowledge for reflection.
Author : Ervin Laszlo,James B Wilbur *nfa*
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103207177X
First Published in 1971, Human Values and the Mind of Man examines how value questions have been treated in traditional theories of human nature. The book presents an interdisciplinary dialogue centred around the 'human mind'.
Author : J. Bronowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475631711