Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Prologue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Ethics in a Technological Culture

      • Jozef Keulartz, Michiel Korthals, Maartje Schermer, Tsjalling Swierstra

      Pages 3-21

3. Technology and Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Pragmatic Resources for Biotechnology

      • Larry Hickman

      Pages 25-36

   3. Philosophical Tools and Technical Solutions

      • Hub Zwart

      Pages 37-40

   4. How Pragmatic is Bioethics?

      • Maartje Schermer, Jozef Keulartz

      Pages 41-68

   5. Healthcare as a Relational Practice: A Hermeneutic-Pragmatic Perspective

      • Guy Widdershoven, Lieke Van Der Scheer

      Pages 69-75

4. The Status of Pragmatism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. A Modest Proposal: Methodological Pragmatism for Bioethics

      • Andrew Light

      Pages 79-97

   3. Methodological Pragmatism in Bioethics: A Modest Proposal?

      • Bart Gremmen

      Pages 99-103

   4. Pragmatic Epistemology and the Activity of Bioethics

      • Glenn McGee

      Pages 105-117

   5. Pragmatism and Pragmata

      • Peter-Paul Verbeek

      Pages 119-123

5. Pragmatism and Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. A Multi-Practice Ethics of Domesticated and “Wild” Animals

      • Michiel Korthals

      Pages 127-141

   3. Weak Ethics, Strong Feelings

      • Hans Harbers

      Pages 143-149

   4. Pragmatism for Medical Ethics

      • Gerard De Vries

      Pages 151-164

   5. Competitiveness, Ethics and Truth

      • Jan Vorstenbosch

      Pages 165-170

   6. A Pragmatist Epistemology for Adaptive Management

      • Bryan G. Norton

      Pages 171-190

   7. How Much Doubt can a Pragmatist Bear?

      • Henk Van Den Belt

      Pages 191-195

Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put up for discussion. This constantly confronts us with new moral problems and dilemmas. In discussion with other approaches this book argues that pragmatism, with its strong emphasis on the interaction between technology and values, gives us both procedural help and stresses the importance of living and cooperating together in tackling these problems and dilemmas. The issues in this book include the interaction of technology and ethics, the status of pragmatism, the concept of practice, and discourse ethics and deliberative democracy. It has an interactive design, with original contributions alternating with critical comments. The book is of interest for students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of bioethics, animal ethics, environmental ethics, pragmatist philosophy and science and technology studies.

• Medical Ethics
• bioethics
• biotechnology
• ethics
• health
• knowledge
• morality
• pragmatism

• Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Jozef Keulartz, Michiel Korthals

• University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Maartje Schermer

• Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Tsjalling Swierstra

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