Titel:	Human nature and the life sciences. Does ethics of the life sciences need an anthropological foundation?
Beginn:	22.09.2011 00:00
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Beschreibung:	Herbsttagung 2011: 22.–23.9. 2011, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn Contemporary philosophy of the life sciences has a strong focus on moral problems caused by research and application in these fields, especially in medicine and biology. In these debates one will often find a partial lack of awareness for anthropological presuppositions woven into the argumentation. The neuro-ethical debate on the concept of moral responsibility in view of causally determined brain processes, for example, points towards the anthropological question of the biological and/or moral nature of humans. Also, the debate on what the aims of medicine should be, and whether these aims are adequately realised in modern medicine have an anthropological part, too. The fact of anthropological assumptions being part of moral argumentations will be less contested than questions about its consequences for applied ethics. The conference will discuss whether and how anthropology – as a method or a set of substantial assumptions – can and should be part of applied ethics. Besides reflections on the methodological problems of the relation of ethics and anthropology, specific challenges to human nature posed by, for example, the neurosciences and modern medicine will be analysed.
Veranstaltungsort:
Adresse:	Gustav-Stresemann-Institut Langer Grabenweg 68 53175 Bonn
Veranstalter:
Adresse:	Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Katharina Mader
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E-Mail:	europaeische.akademie@aw.de
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