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18 hours ago · The Ancient Roots of Moral and Ethical Considerations in Science. The relationship between science and ethics dates back to ancient times. In the 17th century, scientists like René Descartes and Francis Bacon grappled with the ethics of scientific inquiry, recognizing that scientific discoveries could have profound moral and social implications.
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What follows from the account of science as a moral system is that science should display typical features of such a system and that it can explain why it has such features. One is that scientists do not only evaluate beliefs and practices but also their fellow scientists. This means that when scientists behave improperly such as in the case of fra...
Historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science have studied the moral dimensions of science at length. However, by introducing cognitive and evolutionary insights on human cooperation, thinking about science as a moral system does not only establish and confirm that science is a moral system, but it also delivers us insights in the cognitive...
A possible objection to the account of science as a moral system and the role of reputation therein is that science’s organized scepticism comes largely in the form of anonymous peer review. Since the authors are unknown to the referees (and sometimes also to the handling editor), the referees cannot evaluate them as individuals. This seems to cont...
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Mar 6, 2013 · Across the four studies presented here, we demonstrated the morally normative effects of thinking about science. Priming lay notions of science leads individuals to endorse more stringent moral norms (Studies 1, 2), report greater prosocial intentions (Study 3), and exhibit more morally normative behavior (Study 4).
- Christine Ma-Kellams, Jim Blascovich
- 2013
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Mar 6, 2013 · However, no studies to date have directly investigated the link between exposure to science and moral or prosocial behaviors. Here, we empirically examined the effects of thinking about science on moral judgments and behavior. It is important to note that “science” is multi-faceted construct that takes on distinct forms.
- Christine Ma-Kellams, Jim Blascovich
- 2013
Jan 7, 2009 · To many scientists, moral objections to their work are not valid: science, by definition, is morally neutral, so any moral judgement on it simply reflects scientific illiteracy. That,...
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Feb 21, 2016 · Science and advocacy are philosophically incompatible. That premise appears in various forms. For example: “The purpose of science is to assess fundamentally objective phenomena, and because advocacy is about the assessment of normative phenomena, scientists should not be advocates.”
