Unpopular essays on technological progress / [electronic resource] Nicholas Rescher.
Material type: TextPublication details: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1980.Description: x, 122 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0822934116
- 9780822934110
- 601/.9
- T14 .R42
- 50.12
- Also available on the Internet.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Technological progress and human happiness -- The environmental crisis and the quality of life -- The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy -- Ethical issues regarding the delivery of health care -- Ideals, justice, and crime -- Economics versus moral philosophy : the Pareto principle as a case study -- Why save endangered species? -- Scientific progress and the "limits of growth".
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