Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments?

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Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books (2007)
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This volume presents a unique collection of authors who generally maintain that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring new ethical principles into social awareness.

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Q175.35.S346 2007

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Capital punishment and homicide: Econometric Ilusions.Ted Goertzel
Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion.James Stacey Taylor
The Science of Ethics.Laura Purdy
What's the problem?  (pages 1--6)Derek Bolton
From human-racism to personhood.  (pages 24--4)James J. Hughes
The ethics of science and the science of ethics.  (pages 27)Mario Bcinge
Stem cell research.  (pages 43)Ronald A. Lindsay
Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates.  (pages 95)Richard T. Hull & Elaine M. Hull
The right to privacy.  (pages 119)Paul Kurtz
Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine.  (pages 125)John Shook
Sex, medicine, and ethics.  (pages 155)Vern L. Bcillocigh
The assault on scientific mental health.  (pages 208)Scott O. Lilienfeld
Fringe psychotherapies.  (pages 225)Barry L. Beyerstein
Is religion compatible with science and ethics?  (pages 258)Paul Kurtz
Policy, ethics, belief, and morality.  (pages 274)Tom Flynn
On the naturalistic fallacy.  (pages 306)John Teehan
The common ground between science and morality.  (pages 325)Donald B. Calne
Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences.  (pages 332)David R. Koepsell

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