Synthetic Biology and Morality - Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature

A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.

About the author

Gregory E. Kaebnick is a Research Scholar at the Hastings Center, editor of the Hastings Center Report, and editor of the book The Ideal of Nature: Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment.Thomas H. Murray is President Emeritus and Senior Research Scholar at the Hastings Center and author of The Worth of a Child.Gregory E. Kaebnick is a Research Scholar at the Hastings Center, editor of the Hastings Center Report, and editor of the book The Ideal of Nature: Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment.Thomas H. Murray is President Emeritus and Senior Research Scholar at the Hastings Center and author of The Worth of a Child.Mark A. Bedau is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College, Adjunct Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Press journal Artificial Life.

Ronald Sandler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University.

Christopher J. Preston is Professor of Philosophy and a Research Fellow in the Mansfield Center's Program on Ethics and Public Affairs at the University of Montana.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gregory E. Kaebnick (Editor), Thomas H. Murray (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2013
• EAN: 9780262519595
• ISBN: 978-0-262-51959-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education