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IHEU- Appignani Humanist Center for Bioethics and
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies present

Human Rights for the 21st Century
Rights of the Person to Technological Self-Determination

May 11-13, 2007
New York City

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Jonathan Pfeiffer

California Lutheran University

Jonathan Pfeiffer is an undergraduate at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. His concentration began in biomedical engineering. Later, however, he changed his focus to environmental science, political science, and ethics.

The trouble with nature and artifice Listen to talk here

I will discuss the need for moral reasoning which can accommodate a conspicuous rhetorical absence of “intrinsic worth” and of an irrelevancy of nature–artifact duality. Certain kinds of ethical principles may guide the flows of temporal, genetic, emotional, cognitive, intellectual, and other resources that pervade personal and social experience.
I will conclude by claiming that risks of mistakes and unintended consequences posed by unfamiliar ethical principles should provoke humility and caution, rather than paralysis, in the face of hazards.