“你在扮演上帝吗?”:合成生物学和创造人工生命的化学野心

IF 0.3 4区哲学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

Hyle Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI:10.1142/9789811233548_0016

J. Schummer

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摘要

纵观历史，化学家一直面临着“扮演上帝”或类似的邪恶联想的指责，掩盖了对化学的所有道德判断。这篇论文对这一指控进行了伦理分析，重点是克雷格·文特尔2010年宣布制造出“第一个自我复制细胞”。在被称为“合成生物学”的雄心勃勃的项目的更深层次的历史背景下，我描述了文特尔的实际研究及其国际媒体的接待。然后，我分析了在实验室中创造生物的伦理和神学含义。最后，我认为文特尔的案例，就像以前化学领域的许多其他案例一样，是一个不幸的科学与公众互动的案例，它误导了伦理和科学。

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‘Are You Playing God?’: Synthetic Biology and the Chemical Ambition to Create Artificial Life

Throughout history chemists have faced the accusation of ‘playing God’ or similar devilish associations, overshadowing all moral judgments of chemistry. The paper provides an ethical analysis of the accusation with focus on Craig Venter’s 2010 announcement of having produced the ‘first selfreplicating cell’. Against the deeper historical background of the ambitious projects that came to be known as ‘synthetic biology’, I describe Venter’s actual research and its international media reception. Then I analyze both the ethical and theological implications of creating living beings in the laboratory. In conclusion I argue that the Venter case, like many others cases from chemistry before, is a case of unfortunate science-public interaction that mislead both ethics and science.

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Hyle 化学-化学综合

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期刊介绍： HYLE is a double blind peer reviewed international journal dedicated to all philosophical aspects of chemistry. Articles deal with epistemological, methodological, foundational, and ontological problems of chemistry and its subfields; the peculiarities of chemistry and relations to technology, other scientific and non-scientific fields; aesthetical, ethical, and environmental matters in chemistry; as well as philosophically relevant facets of the history, sociology, linguistics, and education of chemistry.