Research lines

Environmental Ethics

Environmental ethics may be defined as the study of moral problems derived from our relationships with non-human living beings (including animals and plants, but also ecosystems). We study the possibility of founding the demarcation of the moral circle and the source of our duties with animals and living beings in general.

Ethics of Human Embryo 

The problem of the moral status of human embryos and the ethical guidances for our actions with respect to them, is a key issue to face moral problems related with abortion, cloning, artificial insemination, and steem cells research. We study how the epistemic uncertainty on the status of human embryo affects our ethical conclusions with respect to them.

Members

Dr. Pablo Razeto-Barry
Dra. Ximena González Grandón
Dr.(c) Mauricio Suárez
Lic. Juan Pablo Vásquez
Dra. Javiera Cienfuegos

Publications

RAZETO-BARRY, P. (2013). Ética y Biología. Epistemología Negativa y el Estatuto Moral del Embrión Humano. pp. 33-64. Desafíos Éticos en un Mundo Complejo. Editorial Nueva Civilización. Santiago, Chile.

RAZETO-BARRY, P. (2006). Ecologismo, mística y delimitación del universo moral. Polis 5(3): 409-415.

P. RAZETO-BARRY. (2006). Especie Humana y Universo Moral. Tesis de Licenciatura en Estudios Filosóficos, Departamento de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado.

P. RAZETO-BARRY. (2006). Los Alcances de la Moral y sus Criterios de Delimitación.  Tesis de Magíster en Estudios Filosóficos, Departamento de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado.