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Technology, Transgenics and a Practical Moral Code

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Authors:
  1. Dennis R. Cooley

    1. Dept. History, North Dakota State University, Fargo, U.S.A.

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  • Combines ethical theory, applied ethics, and social science survey results, to create a useful moral code for decision making
  • Creates an axiology that incorporates the best ideas from how people actually think about ethics
  • Applies both the code and axiology to real world situations to find defensible solutions to problems
  • Eliminates many of the wrong views of technology debates after examining each in much greater detail than is currently available

Part of the book series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (ELTE, volume 4)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Applied Groundwork for a Practical Moral Code

    • Dennis R. Cooley
    Pages 1-30

  3. A Practical Moral Code

    • Dennis R. Cooley
    Pages 31-91

  4. Are Transgenic Organisms, Biotechnology, and Technology Unnatural?

    • Dennis R. Cooley
    Pages 93-140

  5. A Natural Theory of Value

    • Dennis R. Cooley
    Pages 141-195

  6. Applying PMC to a Few Transgenic Technology Issues

    • Dennis R. Cooley
    Pages 197-243

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 245-271
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Most philosophers still like to feel that they have a special subject matter, well insulated from anything that the social scientists, and scientists in general, have to tell them. That is not healthy for philosophy; and it is all too likely to lead to an ethics that continues, as of old, to plead for its ultimates-the fact that one is totally ineffectual being decently concealed by an impressive terminology. (Stevenson 1963, pp. 114–5) Many so-called moral theories do not even attempt to explain or justify common morality but are used to generate guides to conduct intended to replace common morality. These p- posed moral guides, those generated by all of the standard consequentialist, contractarian, and deontological theories, are far simpler than the common moral system and sometimes yield totally unacceptable answers to moral problems. Since these philosophers who put forward these theories have usually dismissed common morality as confused, they are c- pletely unaware of the complexity involved in making moral decisions and judgments. It is not surprising that many who take morality seriously and try to apply it to real problems faced by actual people are so critical of moral theory. (Bernard Gert 1998, p. 6) As both Stevenson and Gert note, ethics requires social and other sciences for by its very nature, ethics is a practical enterprise.

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  • Dept. History, North Dakota State University, Fargo, U.S.A.

    Dennis R. Cooley

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