Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments?

1. What is the relationship among science, reason, and ethics? / Paul Kurtz 2. The ethics of science and the science of ethics / Mario Bunge I. Bioethics and stem cell research 3. Stem cell research : an approach to bioethics based on scientific naturalism / Ronald A. Lindsay 4. Attack of the anti-cloners : biogenetic engineering and self-improvement / Arthur Caplan 5. Freedom of scientific research / Paul Kurtz 6. Stem cell research : the failure of bioethics / Don Marquis 7. Everybody must get cloned : ideological objections do not hold up / David J. Triggle II. The embryo in stem cell research and abortion 8. The moral status of the human embryo : the twinning argument / Berit Brogaard 9. Toward resolving the abortion and embryonic stem cell debates : a scientific and philosophical update / Richard T. Hull, Elaine M. Hull 10. Parallels between the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and abortion / Marin Gillis

III. Euthanasia and assisted suicide 11. The right to privacy / Paul Kurtz 12. Euthanasia, unnecessary suffering, and the proper aims of medicine / John Shook IV. Organ transplants, sexuality, and human enhancement 13. Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercion / James Stacey Taylor 14. Sex, medicine, and ethics : some quandaries / Vern L. Bullough 15. From human-racism to personhood : humanism after human nature / James Hughes V. Deterrence and capital punishment 16. Getting tough on crime : what does it mean? / Richard Taylor 17. Capital punishment and homicide : sociological realities and econometric illusions / Red Goertzel VI. Psychiatry and psychotherapy 18. Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" / Thomas Szasz 19. What's the problem? : a response to secular humanism and scientific psychiatry / Derek Bolton 20. The assault on scientific mental health : ethical implications / Scott O. Lilienfeld 21. Fringe psychotherapies : the public at risk / Barry L. Beyerstein

VII. Science, religion, and ethics

22. Science and religion : no irenics here / Fred Wilson

23. Is religion compatible with science and ethics? : a critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Two magisteria / Paul Kurtz

24. The science of ethics / Laura Purdy

25. Policy, ethics, belief, and morality / Tom Flynn

VIII. Naturalistic ethics

26. Scientific naturalistic ethics : weird science and pseudo-ethics? / William A. Rottschaefer

27. On the naturalistic fallacy : a conceptual basis for evolutionary ethics / Christopher diCarlo, John Teehan

IX. Biology, social science, common sense

28. The common ground between science and morality : a biological perspective / Donald B. Calne

29. Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciences / David R. Koepsell

30. Defending science, within reason : the critical common-sensist manifesto / Susan Haack.