Renewing Philosophy

Deep Science and Deep Technology

By: Keekok Lee

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This ground-breaking book explores the issues raised in the modern fields of genetic research and biotechnology. As philosophers try to make sense of the issues, the author primarily examines these from an ontological rather than an ethical/political standpoint. The book examines the two great revolutions in genetics in the last century - the development of classical Mendelian theory and the discovery of and research into DNA - and the respective technologies generated by these fundamental discoveries. It is also an exercise in the philosophy of technology. The book's ontological approach enables the author to cast light on the current, yet unresolved problems in the field of genetics and biotechnology, for example, those problems raised in connection with the patenting of biotechnological products. The book will prove fascinating for any reader with an interest in the exciting philosophical problems raised by science and technology.

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Series Editor's Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 3
Living Organisms: Their Philosophical Transformation from Natural to Artefactual Beings	p. 4
Artefact	p. 4
Biotic artefact	p. 5
Theses of teleology	p. 8
Degrees of artefacticity	p. 9
Organisms as beings 'for themselves' and 'by themselves'	p. 12
The ontological shift in status	p. 16
Are living organisms machines?	p. 22
Notes	p. 34
Philosophy, Modern Science and Modern Technology	p. 43
Pre-modern philosophy and its science	p. 43
Modern science, its methodology and its philosophy	p. 45
The goals of modern science	p. 51
Episteme, techne and technology	p. 54
Modern science and technology: divergence, then convergence	p. 57
The philosophy of technology and the philosophy of science	p. 63
'Deep' theories and their power of control	p. 71
Notes	p. 75
Biotic Artefacts: Mendelian Genetics and Hybridisation	p. 83
The first agricultural revolution	p. 83
Mendelian genetics: the science	p. 86
Mendelian genetics: the technology of hybridisation	p. 96
Glossary	p. 106
Notes	p. 107
Biotic Artefacts: Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology	p. 112
Molecular genetics and molecular biology	p. 112
Molecular genetics: the science	p. 113
Is it protein or nucleic acid?	p. 114
The contribution of x-ray crystallography	p. 119
Biochemical genetics	p. 119
The contribution of the phage group	p. 121
The unified approach	p. 124
Molecular genetics: biotechnology	p. 129
Glossary	p. 138
Notes	p. 142
Biotechnology and Patentability	p. 145
Modern patent law: a brief account	p. 145
Transgenic organisms	p. 147
How transgenic organisms differ from Mendelian hybrids	p. 148
Patenting and transgenic organisms	p. 149
Depth of manipulation vs extensiveness of manipulation	p. 150
Depth of manipulation is critical	p. 153
Identity of transgenic organisms	p. 154
Technological procedures and their products	p. 155
Genes as raw DNA sequences: are these patentable?	p. 155
Genome projects	p. 156
The scope of the exploration	p. 157
Raw DNA sequences and their patenting so far	p. 158
Raw complete DNA sequences and ESTs are not patentable	p. 159
Distinctions: discovery vs invention, process vs procedure	p. 160
Product of nature and procedures?	p. 161
Misleading analogies and metaphors	p. 162
Discovery and invention	p. 164
Ontological status: structure and function	p. 165
Sulston, ESTs and complete DNA sequences	p. 166
A red herring: Locke's labour theory of value	p. 169
Lexical ordering of criteria	p. 170
Notes	p. 172
Homo Faber: The Humanisation of Biotic Nature and the Naturalisation of Humans	p. 183
Homo faber: the fundamental category of human agency in modernity	p. 183
The ideology of materialism and scientific naturalism	p. 183
The ideology of idealism	p. 185
The humanisation of biotic nature: the supersession of natural evolution	p. 189
The naturalisation of humans: humans as biotic artefacts	p. 193
Reproduction and production	p. 199
Notes	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 213
Notes	p. 216
Epilogue	p. 217
Notes	p. 228
References and Select Bibliography	p. 231
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