Technology, morality, and social policy
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Technology, morality, and social policy
（Studies in social and political theory, v. 18）
The Edwin Mellen Press, c1998
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Papers presented at the XIII International Social Philosophy Conference sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy and held during the summer of 1996 at St. Norbert's College in Wisconsin
Includes bibliographical references
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A collection of papers on political philosophy, this volume is divided into four sections: technology, anxiety and harm; the impact of clinical technology on women; guilt, innocence and responsibility; and perspectives on Machiavelli and on contract theory.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Technology, anxiety and harm: fears and questions concerning technology, James P. Cadello
- Arendt and Heidegger -placing the thinking of technology, Krzystof L. Helminski
- Habermas' concept of the lifeworld - a defence, Austin Harrington
- business-inflicted social harm, Edmund F. Byrne
- inequality, ecojustice and ecological rationality, Val Plumwood. Part 2 The impact of clinical technology on women: technology in the service of nature? - the case of third party reproductive intervention, Ann Dochen
- abortion bypass? a new technology and an old debate, Mary B. Mahowald
- state-sponsored abortion in a property rights framework, John Rowan
- women and the ideal of community in clinical research - questioning the influence of communitarian ideals, Lisa Echenwiler. Part 3 Guilt, innocence and responsibility: understanding punishment as annulment, Jami L. Anderson
- guilt, shame and regret in the world of T.S. Garp -moral taint and a modern novel, Johann A. Klassen
- how to be a good bible-believing Jewish or Christian homosexual, Yeager Hudson
- Sartre, institutional function, injustice and professional ethics, Thomas B. Spademan. Part 5 Perspectives on Machiavelli and on contract theory: was Machiavelli wiser than Cicero?, Haim Gordon
- fighting fire with fire - Machiavelli's passionate political rationality, Waldemar Hanasz
- contractarianism in ethics - actual contracts vs. hypothetical contracts, Ronald J. Broad
- agreement in social contract theories - Locke vs. Rawls, Simon Cushing.
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