Huh. Given the negative reputation of bioethics around here—one I hadn’t much questioned, TBH—most of these are suprisingly reasonable. Only #10, #16, and #24 really seemed like the LW stereotype of the bioethics paper that I would roll my eyes at. Arguably also #31, but I’d argue that one is instead alarming in a different way.
Some others seemed like bureaucratic junk (so, neither good nor bad), and others I think the quoted sections didn’t really give enough information to judge; it is quite possible that a few more of these would go under the stereotype list if I read these papers further.
#1 is… man, why does it have to be so hostile? The argument it’s making is basically a counter-stereotypical bioethics argument, but it’s written in such a hostile manner. That’s not the way to have a good discussion!
Also, I’m quite amused to see that #3 basically argues that we need what I’ve previously referred to here as a “theory of legitimate influence”, for what appear likely to be similar reasons (although again I didn’t read the full thing to inspect this in more detail).
Huh. Given the negative reputation of bioethics around here—one I hadn’t much questioned, TBH—most of these are suprisingly reasonable. Only #10, #16, and #24 really seemed like the LW stereotype of the bioethics paper that I would roll my eyes at. Arguably also #31, but I’d argue that one is instead alarming in a different way.
Some others seemed like bureaucratic junk (so, neither good nor bad), and others I think the quoted sections didn’t really give enough information to judge; it is quite possible that a few more of these would go under the stereotype list if I read these papers further.
#1 is… man, why does it have to be so hostile? The argument it’s making is basically a counter-stereotypical bioethics argument, but it’s written in such a hostile manner. That’s not the way to have a good discussion!
Also, I’m quite amused to see that #3 basically argues that we need what I’ve previously referred to here as a “theory of legitimate influence”, for what appear likely to be similar reasons (although again I didn’t read the full thing to inspect this in more detail).
Wouldn’t the presence of “bureaucratic junk” be evidence towards a field having problems?
I suppose so. It is at least a different problem than I was worried about...