Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Analyzing Social Policy Argumentation: A case study on the opinion of the German National Ethics Council on an amendment of the Stem Cell Law

Zenker, Frank LU orcid (2010) In Informal Logic 30(1). p.62-91
Abstract
Abstract in Undetermined
This paper analyzes and evaluates the 2007 majority opinion of the German National Ethics Council which seeks to establish new information (as to the inferior quality of legally procurable human embryonic stem cells) as a sufficient reason for a relaxation of the 2002 Stem Cell Law. A micro-level analysis of the opinion’s central section is conducted and evaluated vis à vis the strongest known opponent position in the national debate at that time. The argumentation is claimed to rely on an unsupported semantic assumption regarding the parthood relation of the 2002 compromise and to misconstrue the strongest known opponent position.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
in
Informal Logic
volume
30
issue
1
pages
62 - 91
publisher
Informal Logic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
external identifiers
  • wos:000276717400003
  • scopus:79958090483
ISSN
0824-2577
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
d09d6665-1061-4281-8466-12bff755d194 (old id 1586066)
alternative location
http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2947/2367
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 14:16:46
date last changed
2022-02-04 20:03:33
@article{d09d6665-1061-4281-8466-12bff755d194,
  abstract     = {{Abstract in Undetermined<br/>This paper analyzes and evaluates the 2007 majority opinion of the German National Ethics Council which seeks to establish new information (as to the inferior quality of legally procurable human embryonic stem cells) as a sufficient reason for a relaxation of the 2002 Stem Cell Law. A micro-level analysis of the opinion’s central section is conducted and evaluated vis à vis the strongest known opponent position in the national debate at that time. The argumentation is claimed to rely on an unsupported semantic assumption regarding the parthood relation of the 2002 compromise and to misconstrue the strongest known opponent position.}},
  author       = {{Zenker, Frank}},
  issn         = {{0824-2577}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{62--91}},
  publisher    = {{Informal Logic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada}},
  series       = {{Informal Logic}},
  title        = {{Analyzing Social Policy Argumentation: A case study on the opinion of the German National Ethics Council on an amendment of the Stem Cell Law}},
  url          = {{http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2947/2367}},
  volume       = {{30}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}