Medicine & Philosophy. A Twenty-First Century Introduction
This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophi...
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| author | Johansson, Ingvar Lynøe, Niels |
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| description | This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a ‘social construction’ and that ‘anything goes’ with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they are situation-bound; and that, therefore, it makes good sense to search for scientific truths and try to act in a morally decent way. Using philosophical catchwords, the authors advocate ‘fallibilism’ and ‘particularism’; a combination that might be called ‘pragmatic realism’. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-530122024-03-31T13:10:15Z Medicine & Philosophy. A Twenty-First Century Introduction Johansson, Ingvar Lynøe, Niels R5-920 B1-5802 thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a ‘social construction’ and that ‘anything goes’ with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they are situation-bound; and that, therefore, it makes good sense to search for scientific truths and try to act in a morally decent way. Using philosophical catchwords, the authors advocate ‘fallibilism’ and ‘particularism’; a combination that might be called ‘pragmatic realism’. 2021-02-11T19:05:22Z 2021-02-11T19:05:22Z 2016-01-19 12:28:34 2008 book 18130 9783110321364 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53012 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321364 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110321364 10.1515/9783110321364 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110321364 475 open access |
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