CSEP/iSEI/School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Health Care Anal. 2013 Mar;21(1):20-30. doi: 10.1007/s10728-012-0220-5.
Many people working in bioethics take pride in the subject's embrace of a wide range of disciplines. This invites questions of what in particular is added by each. In this paper, I focus on the role of philosophy within the field: what, if anything, is its unique contribution to bioethics? I sketch out a claim that philosophy is central to bioethics because of its particular analytic abilities, and defend its place within bioethics from a range of sceptical attacks.
许多从事生物伦理学研究的人都为该学科广泛涵盖多个学科领域而感到自豪。这就引出了一个问题，即每个学科领域具体贡献了什么。本文聚焦于哲学在该领域的作用：哲学对生物伦理学的独特贡献是什么？如果有的话。我概述了一个观点，即哲学之所以是生物伦理学的核心，是因为它具有特殊的分析能力，并从一系列怀疑论攻击中为哲学在生物伦理学中的地位进行了辩护。
