EAN: 9783110321050

MEDICINE & PHILOSOPHY - INGVAR JOHANSSON NIELS ...

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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