Skip to main content
Open Book Publishers

1. Bioethics: A Global Approach

  • COMPOST Collective (author)
Chapter of: Bioethics: A Coursebook(pp. 1–14)

Export Metadata

  • ONIX 3.1
  • ONIX 3.0
    • Thoth
    • Project MUSE
      Cannot generate record: No BIC or BISAC subject code
    • OAPEN
    • JSTOR
      Cannot generate record: No BISAC subject code
    • Google Books
      Cannot generate record: No BIC, BISAC or LCC subject code
    • OverDrive
      Cannot generate record: No priced EPUB or PDF URL
  • ONIX 2.1
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • OCLC KBART
  • BibTeX
  • CrossRef DOI deposit
    Cannot generate record: This work does not have any ISBNs
  • MARC 21 Record
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
  • MARC 21 Markup
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
  • MARC 21 XML
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
Metadata
Title1. Bioethics
SubtitleA Global Approach
ContributorCOMPOST Collective (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0449.01
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0449/chapters/10.11647/obp.0449.01
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightCOMPOST Collective;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2025-05-12
Long abstractChapter 1 draws on Van Rensselaer Potter’s vision to present bioethics as a unified and transdisciplinary approach. Through the example of Arthur Galston’s involvement in the development of Agent Orange, this chapter demonstrates how ethical reflection must be embedded in scientific practice from the start. We adopt an ethico-onto-epistemological approach, emphasizing that ethics, knowledge, and our understanding of reality are deeply intertwined. Drawing on philosophy of science (e.g. Kuhn’s paradigms) and feminist epistemology, it challenges the idea of science as value-free and highlights the importance of diversity in knowledge production. The chapter also explores major branches of ethics, including metaethics and applied ethics, and contrasts ethical naturalism with non-naturalism. It introduces thought experiments as a method of philosophical reasoning, while also discussing experimental philosophy’s efforts to test intuitions empirically. Finally, it presents empirical and embedded bioethics as practical approaches for integrating ethics into real scientific contexts, showing how bioethics can—and should—be grounded in both philosophical reasoning and everyday research practice.
Page rangepp. 1–14
Print length14 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

COMPOST Collective

(author)
Research Group at the Department of Philosophy at University of Antwerp
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/compost/

COMPOST Collective is a research group at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Antwerp. This interdisciplinary collective has a specific interest in (bio)ethics and is embedded in the department's Center for Ethics.

References
  1. Barad, Karen Michelle. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.
  2. Brosnan, S. F., and F. B. M. de Waal. 2003. “Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay”. Nature 425 (6955): 297–299. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01963
  3. Galston, A. W. 1972. “Science and Social Responsibility: A Case History”. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 196 (4): 223–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1972.tb21231.x.
  4. Gettier, Edmund. 1963. “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”. Analysis 23 (6): 121–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/23.6.121
  5. Harding, Sandra. 1991. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women’s Lives. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1hhfnmg
  6. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1996. Edited by Richard Tuck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  7. Kuhn, Thomas S. 2012. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition. Edited by Ian Hacking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13179781.html
  8. McLennan, Stuart, Amelia Fiske, Daniel Tigard, Ruth Müller, Sami Haddadin, and Alena Buyx. 2022. “Embedded Ethics: A Proposal for Integrating Ethics into the Development of Medical AI”. BMC Medical Ethics 23 (1): 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00746-3
  9. Moore, G. E. 1903. Principia Ethica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  10. “One Health Commission”. n.d. Accessed 10 July 2024. https://www.onehealthcommission.org/
  11. O’Neill, Onora. 2002. Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606250
  12. Parfit, Derek. 1987. Reasons and Persons. Vol. I. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  13. Potter, Van Rensselaer. 1988. Global Bioethics: Building on the Leopold Legacy. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
  14. Railton, P. (1986). “Moral Realism”. The Philosophical Review 95 (2): 163–207. https://doi.org/10.2307/2185589
  15. Railton, Peter. 2003. Facts, Values, and Norms: Essays toward a Morality of Consequence. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613982
  16. Weinberg, Jonathan M., Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich. 2001. “Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions”. Philosophical Topics 29 (1–2): 429–60. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics2001291/217
  17. Young, Thomas. 1804. “The Bakerian Lecture: Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 94: 1–16.