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<div align="justify">The human practices project of our team did not concentrate on inquiring the ethical, social and legal implications of the synthetic biology, but rather on analysing what the actual sources of these diverse problems are. We believe that this is a necessary step before ethical, social and legal deliberations of synthetic biology can be fruitful; that indeed, at first, we need to examine if these problems are actual problems at all, as oppossed to just taking them as facts, without further consideration. To this avail, we tried to leave aside all ‘small-talk-philosophy’ and futuristic ethical ‘just-so-stories’ in order to conduct a detailed and rigorous philosophical analysis of the epistemology of synthetic biology and the ontology of its products. For this, we combined state-of the-art-approaches of three fields of analytic philosophy (philosophy of technology, philosophy of biology and philosophy of language) to deliver consistent judgements. The results of this philosophical analysis reveal a number of epistemological deficits of the synthetic biology, but also offer the possibility of a consistent epistemological foundation of it.<br><br><br> | <div align="justify">The human practices project of our team did not concentrate on inquiring the ethical, social and legal implications of the synthetic biology, but rather on analysing what the actual sources of these diverse problems are. We believe that this is a necessary step before ethical, social and legal deliberations of synthetic biology can be fruitful; that indeed, at first, we need to examine if these problems are actual problems at all, as oppossed to just taking them as facts, without further consideration. To this avail, we tried to leave aside all ‘small-talk-philosophy’ and futuristic ethical ‘just-so-stories’ in order to conduct a detailed and rigorous philosophical analysis of the epistemology of synthetic biology and the ontology of its products. For this, we combined state-of the-art-approaches of three fields of analytic philosophy (philosophy of technology, philosophy of biology and philosophy of language) to deliver consistent judgements. The results of this philosophical analysis reveal a number of epistemological deficits of the synthetic biology, but also offer the possibility of a consistent epistemological foundation of it.<br><br><br> | ||
Revision as of 12:00, 26 October 2012
0. Overview
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination"
- Daniel Dennet
- Daniel Dennet
The human practices project of our team did not concentrate on inquiring the ethical, social and legal implications of the synthetic biology, but rather on analysing what the actual sources of these diverse problems are. We believe that this is a necessary step before ethical, social and legal deliberations of synthetic biology can be fruitful; that indeed, at first, we need to examine if these problems are actual problems at all, as oppossed to just taking them as facts, without further consideration. To this avail, we tried to leave aside all ‘small-talk-philosophy’ and futuristic ethical ‘just-so-stories’ in order to conduct a detailed and rigorous philosophical analysis of the epistemology of synthetic biology and the ontology of its products. For this, we combined state-of the-art-approaches of three fields of analytic philosophy (philosophy of technology, philosophy of biology and philosophy of language) to deliver consistent judgements. The results of this philosophical analysis reveal a number of epistemological deficits of the synthetic biology, but also offer the possibility of a consistent epistemological foundation of it.
1. Philosophical Analysis
2. Educational Outreach
3. Public Outreach
