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Is the lifeliner objectively free?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Steve Fuller
Steve Fuller
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Although Rose claims to rely on Marx's paradoxical view of history to explain the freedom enjoyed by what he calls “lifelines,” he blurs what one might call the “objective” and “subjective” senses of freedom. This, in turn, reflects his overreaction to biological reductionism. Consequently, in discussing biology-related policy issues, Rose fails to distinguish genuinely efficacious interventions and merely convenient ones.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 894 - 895
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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