Texts, articles and reviews under label: 'ethics'.
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summary: This article traces the intellectual evolution of Alasdair MacIntyre, highlighting his revision of some of his thesis the need to provide a metaphysical foundation for the human good, to understand virtue in light of biology, and to recognize vulnerability and mutual dependence as constitutive conditions of the moral life.
Author: José Ángel Lombo
summary: Summary of Antonio Ruiz Retegui's contribution to the foundations of ethics in science, originally published in the work Deontología Biológica.
Author: Natalia López Moratalla
Bioethics and Christianity in the face of the challenges of technoscience
summaryBioethics today is oriented towards consensus. In this context, Christian ideas clash as a claim to manipulative influence in the democratic bioethical discussion . This contrast and the contributions of faith to bioethics are examined.
Author: Luis Miguel Pastor García
summaryInterdisciplinary reflection that sample the limitations of neuroscience to understand consciousness and mental illness, and the need to integrate philosophical analysis in the interpretation of neuroscientific findings. Vulnerability is proposed as a fundamental anthropological concept.
Author: José Manuel Giménez Amaya
Gene editing: potential and ethical considerations
summaryGene editing: We are currently able to change the sequence of genomes. This session reviews the molecular foundations of gene editing, its current and forthcoming technical possibilities, and the philosophical and ethical issues it raises.
Author: Ujué Moreno
St. Thomas, a synthetic understanding of reality
summarySt. Thomas Aquinas found in Aristotelian thought the confirmation of his own synthetic vision of reality, founded on a dynamic understanding of beings, with a natural finality that embraces all its facets. It is the basis of the philosophia perennis.
Author: José Manuel Giménez Amaya and José Ángel Lombo.
Mind-brain relationships and neuroscience- neuroscience dialoguePhilosophy
summaryThe interdisciplinary study of the mind-brain relationship allows two approaches: from neuroscience to Philosophy, and from Philosophy to neuroscience. The application of these relationships to ethics and social dependence is explored.
Author: José Manuel Giménez Amaya and José Angel Lombo
Biomedical research and personalised medicine in heart failure
summaryHeart failure, which is common after heart attacks, is a serious health problem. Despite its seriousness, its research is not as well developed as in other fields. Various approaches to research in this field, and their ethical implications, are explained.
Author: María de Ujué Moreno
Psychology and Christianity: A goal-Model of the Person
summary: This seminar presents an integrated Catholic Christian goal of the person: a perspective informed by Christian faith, reason, and the psychological sciences. This deeper understanding of the person will enhance theory, research, and practice in mental health.
Author: Paul C. Vitz
Expertise as a methodological and ethical problem
summary: Scientific experience is supposed to transform knowledge "the capacity to act." This lecture two issues in expert opinions: the use of data the possibility of recommending action without committing the naturalistic fallacy.
Author: Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik
Ethics for machines: how to teach your robot to behave itself
summary: Intelligent systems will make ethically charged decisions. Can we teach ethics to machines? Artificial intelligence is explained, and how a computational system can modify its behaviour by learning from the environment, or from human beings.
Author: Gonzalo Génova.