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REDUCTIONISM V COMPLEXITY: A CANARY IN THE BIOETHICS CROSSFIRE.(discusses Russell Blackford's review of "The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit")(Critical Essay)
RUSSELL BLACKFORD'S review of my recent book, The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit (Quadrant, May 2001) raises some interesting questions that identify the many areas where he and I part company in our views about ethics. They include:
* the role of moral intuition and "other ways of knowing" (a term Blackford detests) in the search for ethics;
* whether we can create a societal-cultural paradigm that both people who reject religion and those who espouse it will accept;
* the basic presumption that we should work from in deciding about the ethics of scientific research and the application of new technologies;
* ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, REDUCTIONISM V COMPLEXITY: A CANARY IN THE BIOETHICS...