1st Edition
Science, Ethics, and Politics Conversations and Investigations
By Kristen Renwick Monroe
Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Kristen Renwick Monroe is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at University of California-Irvine. She is the author of Heart of Altruism and The Hand of Compassion (2004).
“This work is presented with the intention of demonstrating the contributions that scientific thought can make to the study of ethics. Monroe (director of the Ethics Center at the U of California at Irvine) presents nine papers, each of which is paired with a conversation/interview with one of the paper’s authors addressing the broader scientific-ethical issues raised by the paper in question. Topics include the roots of morality in evolutionary biology, the psychology of virtue, the ‘morla conundrum of blurred racial boundaries,’ the economic responsibility of parents to children, economics and climate change, ethical and scientific considerations of traumatic stress in the international context, ethics and the policy of extraordinary rendition, and gender equality in academia.” –-Eithne O’Leyne, August 2011 Reference and Research Book News
"This is a fascinating interdisciplinary conversation between
distinguished scholars. If you are interested in the relation between
science and ethics, this book will provide rich food for thought."
-Brian Skyrms, University of California—Irvine and Stanford University
