The course aims at introducing the philosophical reflexion on the different approaches to science with special reference to biotechnology and its ethical implications.
Philosophy and biotechnology: understanding nature between science and ethics.
Reading list
1) J. Losee, Filosofia della scienza. Un'introduzione, trad. it. di P. Budinich, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2006.
2) M. Tallacchini, F. Terragni, Le biotecnologie. Aspetti etici, sociali e ambientali, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2004.
3) WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/).
4) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Oviedo 4. IV. 1997 (http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/164.htm).
Written test.
