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+====All inquiry starts with a purpose - the ultimate end of thought is the production of belief and the satisfaction of doubt. Ethics is thus aimed at practical ends.==== |
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+**C. S. Peirce**. "How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878)." The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Volume 1 (1867-1893. Edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel. Indian University Press. 124-142 |
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+The principles set forth in the first part of this essay lead, at once |
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+conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object. |
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+====All fields of knowledge, including moral knowledge, are still constrained by the general procedure of pragmatic inquiry. ==== |
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+**John Dewey 1**. "The Problem of Logical Subject Matter." 1938 ~~From Logic: The Theory of Inquiry~~. The Essential Dewey: Ethics, Logic, Psychology. Volume 2. Edited by Hickman and Alexander. Indian University Press. 157-169. |
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+The word knowledge is also a suitable term to designate the objective and close of |
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+such a way as not to be subject to revision in further inquiry. |
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+====Current philosophical methods fail – we must find a scientific methodology that allows us to arrive at truth==== |
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+**Pierce.** The Fixation of Belief, by Charles S. Peirce. (Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".) Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15. NP 8/24/16. |
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+This method is far more intellectual and respectable from the point of view of reason |
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+anybody with a living doubt upon the subject, let him consider it. |
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+====Thus, the standard is consistency with the methodological constraints of social inquiry.==== |
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+====Understanding nuclear energy from the standpoint of social experimentation is inconsistent with the logic of a 'ban.' The very notion of banning the technology miss-frames the debate in a way incompatible with pragmatic social experimentation. ==== |
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+**Van de Poel 15**. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era. Ibo van de Poel. (Ibo van de Poel is Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on new technologies as social experiments, values in engineering design, moral responsibility, responsible innovation, engineering ethics, risk ethics, and the ethics of newly emerging technologies like nanotechnology. He is co-editor of theHandbook of Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences (Elsevier, 2009), Philosophy and Engineering (Springer, 2010), Moral Responsibility. Beyond Free Will And Determinism (Springer, 2011) and co-author of Ethics, Engineering and Technology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is also a co-editor of the Springer book series in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. |
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+Shifting the moral debate away from the stalemate between opponents and proponents of nuclear energy |
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+for a more constructive debate and toward improved social experimentation with nuclear energy. |
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+====And this experimental attitude is necessary to reconcile with the philosophical tradition of pragmatism. The changing landscape around energy renders absolutist solutions, such as a ban, this early in our technological understanding utterly misplaced as a form of social decision making methodology. ==== |
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+**Van de Poel 15**. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era. Ibo van de Poel. (Ibo van de Poel is Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on new technologies as social experiments, values in engineering design, moral responsibility, responsible innovation, engineering ethics, risk ethics, and the ethics of newly emerging technologies like nanotechnology. He is co-editor of theHandbook of Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences (Elsevier, 2009), Philosophy and Engineering (Springer, 2010), Moral Responsibility. Beyond Free Will And Determinism (Springer, 2011) and co-author of Ethics, Engineering and Technology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is also a co-editor of the Springer book series in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. |
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+Moral learning and experimentation If we take the experimental nature of nuclear energy fully serious |
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+. This allows for a much more constructive take on the moral debate. |