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Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Jozef Keulartz

    1. Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Michiel Korthals

    1. Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  3. Maartje Schermer

    1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. Tsjalling Swierstra

    1. Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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