From the twilight of probability : ethics and politics / William R. Shea and Antonio Spadafora, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shea, William R.

Spadafora, Antonio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ethics--Congresses.

Political ethics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 157 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Canton, MA : Science History Publications, U.S.A., 1992.

Contents:

Introduction: all the light we have / William R. Shea

Moral minimalism / Michael Walzer

Critiques of political ethics / Dennis Thompson

Politics and civil philosophy / Maurizio Viroli

Democratic politics and ethics / Amy Gutmann

The idea of pluralism in ethics and politics / Salvatore Veca

The prophet and the tyrant: some considerations on Hans Jonas' philosophical proposal / Pier Paolo Portinaro

Messages from three contemporary images of medicine: failed medicine, miracle medicine and science fiction medicine / Margaret A. Somerville

Ethics as a measure of scientific truth / Paul K. Feyerabend

Conflicts of ethics: the case of Judaism / Vittorio D. Segre

Aristotle's practical philosophy in contemporary Anglo-American thought / Enrico Berti

The quest for power and the new ethics / Horst-Eberhard Richter

Towards a policy of morality in politics / Pierre Bourdieu.

Notes:

Papers presented at the Fourth International Locarno Conference on Science and Society, Oct. 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: From the twilight of probability.

ISBN:

088135175X

9780881351750

OCLC:

25131445