Analyzing Social Policy Argumentation: A case study on the opinion of the German National Ethics Council on an amendment of the Stem Cell Law
(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.
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- author
- Zenker, Frank LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- 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
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- wos:000276717400003
- scopus:79958090483
- ISSN
- 0824-2577
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- d09d6665-1061-4281-8466-12bff755d194 (old id 1586066)
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- http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2947/2367
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