How to protect human dignity from science

Human Dignity and Bioethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 29-42

  Dennett, Daniel C ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (14)

1. Philip Tetlock, "Coping with Trade-offs: Psychological Constraints and Political Implications," in Political Reasoning and Choice, ed. Arthur Lupia, Matthew D. McCubbins and Samuel L. Popkin (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999).
2. "Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions," Trends in Cognitive Science 7 (2003): 320-324.
3. Philip Tetlock, A. Peter McGraw, and Orie V. Kristel, "Proscribed Forms of Social Cognition: Taboo Trade-Offs, Forbidden Base Rates, and Heretical Counterfactuals," in Relational Models Theory: A Contemporary Overview, ed. Nick Haslam (Mahway, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 2004), pp. 247-262.
4. Philip E. Tetlock, Orie V. Kristel, S. Beth Elson, Melanie C. Green, and Jennifer Lerner, "The Psychology of the Unthinkable: Taboo Trade-Offs, Forbidden Base Rates, and Heretical Counterfactuals," at http://faculty.haas. berkeley. edu/tetlock/docs/thepsy~1.doc.
5. Material in the previous two paragraphs is drawn from my Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006), pp. 22-23.
6. Douglas Hofstadter, "Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading up to a Luring Lottery," Scientific American, June, 1983, reprinted with a discussion of reverberant doubt in Metamagical Themas (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp. 752-755.
7. Douglas Hofstadter, "Metafont, Metamathematics and Metaphysics," in Visible Language, August, 1982, reprinted with comments in Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, pp. 290, 595.
8. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999).
9. "Democracy and Its Global Roots," New Republic, October 6, 2003, pp. 28-35.
10. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).
11. Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves (New York: Viking Penguin, 2003).
12. Paul Davies, "Undermining Free Will," Foreign Policy, September/October, 2004.
13. George Ainslie, Breakdown of Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 88.
14. George Ainslie, précis of Breakdown of Will, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2005): 635-650, p. 649.