Frankenstein: A Warning to Modern Scientific Experimentation
by As the first acknowledged novel in the science fiction genre, Mary Shelly’s 1818 story Frankenstein contains ideas of scientific exploration that are applicable to both …
Do we control technology or technology controls us?
by This week we read a new novel called Frankenstein. This novel talks about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who created life with the intention of …
Curiosity and Outcome
by Being a scientist entails very little moral obligation, but being a good or righteous scientist requires moral obligations to do what is the best for …
How Far is Too Far?
by Throughout the modern world today science, technology, and humans are all changing simultaneously. With these frequent advancements in technology, we see the ethics in the …
The Toll of Creation
by The book Frankenstein has many messages and warnings weaved through it. One of the messages that was strong and reoccuring was the idea of abandonment …
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
by Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein looks at the complicated question of how society defines being a moral or immoral person. Specifically, is Victor Frankenstein a moral or …
From Isolate To Being Isolated
by When mentioning Frankenstein, many people will immediately think of the idea of how dangerous “playing god” is in the case of scientific investigation. However, I …
The Founder of Modern Anatomy and his Contribution to the Scientific Revolution
by Andreas Vesalius was a major contributor to the 16th century scientific revolution, specifically in the fields of biology and medicine. In The Scientific Revolution, Steven …
Revolution is Relative
by “There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it” (Shapin 1). The opening line from Steven Shapin’s The Scientific …
Philosophy in Scientific Revolution
This week, we talked about the concept of scientific revolution and what did mean to the past society. As the period of scientific revolution goes, …