摘要：This is the first edition of TimLewens work, Professor ofPhilosophy of Science at theUniversity of Cambridge, wherehe is also Deputy Director ofCRASSH – the Centre for Researchin the Arts, Social Sciences andHumanities – and a fellow of ClareCollege. His best-known book is“The Meaning of Science”, but in this review, I will focus on the book called “The biological foundation of bioethics”. The volume is divided into ten chapters preceded by an introduction: 2. Enhancement and Human Nature: The Case of Sandel; 3. The Risks of Progress: Precaution and the Case of Human Enhancement, 4. Human Nature: The Very Idea, 5. From Bricolage to BioBricksTM: Synthetic Biology and Rational Design, 6. Origins, Parents, and Non-identity, 7. Development Aid: On Ontogeny and Ethics, 8. Prospects for Evolutionary Policy, 9. What Are ‘Natural Inequalities’? 10. Foot Note, 11. Health, Naturalism, and Policy.
