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Abortion : moral and legal perspectives
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ISBN: 0870234404 0870234412 0585083509 9780585083506 9780870234408 9780870234415 Year: 1984 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts


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Social science and medicine. F: Medical and social ethics.
ISSN: 02715392 18783872 Publisher: Oxford : Pergamon press,


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Huxley's church and Maxwell's demon
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ISBN: 022616490X 9780226164908 9780226164878 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago

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During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. Yet as Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon reveals, most of the methodological values underlying scientific practice were virtually identical for the theists and the naturalists: each agreed on the importance of the uniformity of natural laws, the use of hypothesis and theory, the moral value of science, and intellectual freedom. But if scientific naturalism did not rise to dominance because of its methodological superiority, then how did it triumph? Matthew Stanley explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic. Both were deeply engaged in the methodological, institutional, and political issues that were crucial to the theistic-naturalistic transformation. What Stanley's analysis of these figures reveals is that the scientific naturalists executed a number of strategies over a generation to gain control of the institutions of scientific education and to reimagine the history of their discipline. Rather than a sudden revolution, the similarity between theistic and naturalistic science allowed for a relatively smooth transition in practice from the old guard to the new.


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Classical probability in the enlightenment
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ISBN: 1400844223 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton University Press,

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What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.


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Ethical theory and moral practice.
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ISSN: 13862820 15728447 Year: 1998 Publisher: Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice is a peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish the best work produced in all fields of ethics. It welcomes high quality submissions regardless of the tradition or school of thought from which they derive. As an editorial priority, however, presentations should be accessible to the philosophical community at large. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice seeks interdisciplinary cooperation between ethics, theology and empirical disciplines such as medicine, economics, sociology, psychology and law. It recognises that distinctions between theory and practice are, to a large extent, artificial. The journal therefore aims to publish theoretically relevant 'practical' ethics and practically relevant 'theoretical' ethics.


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Progrès scientifique et débat éthique : plaidoyer pour l'analyse politique
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ISSN: 02985586 ISBN: 2204031879 9782204031875 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris Cerf

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