Examenvragen 2025
Bio-Ethics
, Examenvragen Overzicht
Our approach to Bioethics
• What is meant by an ‘ethico-onto-epistemology’?
• What do Thomas Hobbes and Frans de Waal say about the origins of morality?
Moral Theories
• Explain utilitarianism. What are its strong and weak points?
• Explain deontology. What are its strong and weak points?
• Explain virtue ethics. What are its strong and weak points?
• Explain care ethics. What are its strong and weak points?
• What are the differences and similarities between Aristotle’s concept of virtue and the Aztec
concept of excellence?
Environmental Ethics
• Critically discuss three criteria to ground the moral value of non-human beings.
• Explain deep ecology and ecofeminism and how they relate to each other.
Synthetic Biology and Bioart
• Describe conceptual issues in synthetic biology and how they are ethically relevant.
• Discuss ethical challenges related to semi-synthetic Artemisinin.
Medical and Public Health Ethics
• Discuss the four principles of biomedical ethics according to Beauchamp and Childress and apply
these to a case.
• Discuss this statement: “Scientific objectives, and not vulnerability, convenience or privilege,
should determine communities selected as study sites...” and give two examples of unfair research
subject selection.
• Discuss the four principles of biomedical ethics according to Beauchamp and Childress and apply
these to a case provided on the exam.
• Discuss the following statement: “Scientific objectives (not vulnerability, convenience or
privilege) and the potential for and distribution of risks and benefits, should determine
communities selected as study sites and the inclusion criteria for individual subjects.” And give
two examples of unfair research subject selection practices.
Animal Ethics and Animal Experimentation
• Discuss three positions on the moral status of non-human animals. For each position, give one
example of an approach to animal experimentation ethics arguing from that position.
• Explain the characteristics of consequentialist approaches to animal ethics and difficulties of
consequentialist approaches on the case of animal experimentation.
• Explain the hybrid approach (assumptions, characteristics, difficulties/criticisms) to evaluating
animal experimentation. Describe how 'the three Rs' fit into this approach.
Bio-Ethics
, Examenvragen Overzicht
Our approach to Bioethics
• What is meant by an ‘ethico-onto-epistemology’?
• What do Thomas Hobbes and Frans de Waal say about the origins of morality?
Moral Theories
• Explain utilitarianism. What are its strong and weak points?
• Explain deontology. What are its strong and weak points?
• Explain virtue ethics. What are its strong and weak points?
• Explain care ethics. What are its strong and weak points?
• What are the differences and similarities between Aristotle’s concept of virtue and the Aztec
concept of excellence?
Environmental Ethics
• Critically discuss three criteria to ground the moral value of non-human beings.
• Explain deep ecology and ecofeminism and how they relate to each other.
Synthetic Biology and Bioart
• Describe conceptual issues in synthetic biology and how they are ethically relevant.
• Discuss ethical challenges related to semi-synthetic Artemisinin.
Medical and Public Health Ethics
• Discuss the four principles of biomedical ethics according to Beauchamp and Childress and apply
these to a case.
• Discuss this statement: “Scientific objectives, and not vulnerability, convenience or privilege,
should determine communities selected as study sites...” and give two examples of unfair research
subject selection.
• Discuss the four principles of biomedical ethics according to Beauchamp and Childress and apply
these to a case provided on the exam.
• Discuss the following statement: “Scientific objectives (not vulnerability, convenience or
privilege) and the potential for and distribution of risks and benefits, should determine
communities selected as study sites and the inclusion criteria for individual subjects.” And give
two examples of unfair research subject selection practices.
Animal Ethics and Animal Experimentation
• Discuss three positions on the moral status of non-human animals. For each position, give one
example of an approach to animal experimentation ethics arguing from that position.
• Explain the characteristics of consequentialist approaches to animal ethics and difficulties of
consequentialist approaches on the case of animal experimentation.
• Explain the hybrid approach (assumptions, characteristics, difficulties/criticisms) to evaluating
animal experimentation. Describe how 'the three Rs' fit into this approach.
