How Do Scientists Perceive the Relationship Between Ethics and Science? A Pilot Study of Scientists' Appeals to Values.

IF 2.7 2区 哲学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Caleb L Linville, Aidan C Cairns, Tyler Garcia, Bill Bridges, Jonathan Herington, James T Laverty, Scott Tanona
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Efforts to promote responsible conduct of research (RCR) should take into consideration how scientists already conceptualize the relationship between ethics and science. In this study, we investigated how scientists relate ethics and science by analyzing the values expressed in interviews with fifteen science faculty members at a large midwestern university. We identified the values the scientists appealed to when discussing research ethics, how explicitly they related their values to ethics, and the relationships between the values they appealed to. We found that the scientists in our study appealed to epistemic and ethical values with about the same frequency, and much more often than any other type of value. We also found that they explicitly associated epistemic values with ethical values. Participants were more likely to describe epistemic and ethical values as supporting each other, rather than trading off with each other. This suggests that many scientists already have a sophisticated understanding of the relationship between ethics and science, which may be an important resource for RCR training interventions.

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科学家如何看待伦理与科学的关系?科学家对价值观诉求的初步研究。
促进负责任的研究行为(RCR)的努力应该考虑到科学家如何已经将伦理与科学之间的关系概念化。在这项研究中,我们通过分析对中西部一所大型大学的15名科学教员的采访中表达的价值观,调查了科学家如何将伦理与科学联系起来。我们确定了科学家在讨论研究伦理时所呼吁的价值观,他们如何明确地将自己的价值观与伦理联系起来,以及他们所呼吁的价值观之间的关系。我们发现,在我们的研究中,科学家们对认识论和伦理价值观的诉求频率大致相同,而且比任何其他类型的价值观都要频繁得多。我们还发现,他们明确地将认知价值与伦理价值联系起来。参与者更有可能将认知和道德价值观描述为相互支持,而不是相互权衡。这表明许多科学家已经对伦理与科学之间的关系有了复杂的理解,这可能是RCR培训干预的重要资源。
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Science and Engineering Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics 综合性期刊-工程:综合
CiteScore
10.70
自引率
5.40%
发文量
54
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Science and Engineering Ethics is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring ethical issues associated with science and engineering, covering professional education, research and practice as well as the effects of technological innovations and research findings on society. While the focus of this journal is on science and engineering, contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, are welcomed. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, ethics of new and emerging technologies, research ethics, computer ethics, energy ethics, animals and human subjects ethics, ethics education in science and engineering, ethics in design, biomedical ethics, values in technology and innovation. We welcome contributions that deal with these issues from an international perspective, particularly from countries that are underrepresented in these discussions.
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