科学、倫理と政治学 Science, Ethics, and Politics : Conversations and Investigations

Monroe, Kristen Renwick

Routledge（2012/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781594519970
• DDC分類 320.01

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2011. Issues explored range from parents' obligations to children all the way to questions of what constitutes torture.

Full Description

The relationship between science and ethics has been subject to much debate. This volume demonstrates the mutually beneficial relationship that can take place between ethics and science. It presents work that utilises the tools of science - broadly conceptualised - to elucidate ethical issues, showing that careful scientific analysis of ethical issues can reveal new insights. This is supplemented by conversations with the authors - some of them pre-eminent scientists addressing issues of ethics, including two Nobel laureates - to learn how they came to the study of ethics and ask how they conceptualise and think about ethical issues. Science, Ethics and Politics provides substantive insight into particular ethical issues, ranging from issues of torture during war to parents' obligations to children. This book is designed as a complement to traditional texts on ethics and should appeal to students of ethics as well as to the general public.

Contents

Introduction 1 Evolutionary Biology and the Origin of Morality 2 Creating New Paradigms in Political Science: The Case of Biology and Politics 3 "The Aesthetics of Reason": Exploring the Psychology of Virtue 4 About Race and Politics 5 On Ethics and Economics 6 Economics, Policy, and the Public Good 7 The Ethics and Politics of Preventing Political Violence 8 About Law and Justice 9 Ethics and Individual Freedom