are scientist morally responsible?

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Values and Norms in SCIENCE:
Are scientists morally
responsible?
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Ethics
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Morality

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What is Ethics?
• Ethics are standards of conduct (or
social norms) that prescribe behavior.
• Ethics as a field of study is a normative
discipline whose main goals are prescriptive
and evaluative rather than descriptive and
explanatory. So Ethicists are different from
social scientists.
• Ethicists (or moral philosophers)
study standards of conduct.
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The science of human duty; the rules of
human conduct.
The function of morality is "to combat the
deleterious consequences of human
sympathies" (Beauchamp).
Its aim is "to contribute to betterment -- or at
least non-deterioration -- of the human
predicament" (Warnock).
"Ethics aims at discovering what are
those other properties belonging to
all things which are good" (Moore).
What is Morality?
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Ethics
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Morality

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Ethics and Morality
• So that we can see, moral standards
distinguish between right and wrong, good
and bad, virtue and vice, justice and injustice.
• Ethics are not general standards of conduct
but the standards of a particular profession,
occupation, institution, or group within
society. The word “ethics”, when used in this
way, usually serves as a modifier for another
word, e.g. business ethics, medical ethics,
sports ethics, military ethics, etc.
• They are all professional ethics.
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to distinguish
between Ethics and Law
• (1) some actions that are illegal may
not be unethical. (kill)
• (2) some actions that are unethical
may not be illegal. (secret)
• (3) laws can be unethical or immoral.
(Nazi’s)
• (4) we use different kinds of
mechanisms to express, teach,
inculcate, and enforce laws
and ethics.
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• Laws are often expressed in highly
technical and complex jargon, and we
often need specially trained people---
lawyers and judges---to interpret them.
Ethics and morals tend to be less
technical and complex.
• (5) we use the coercive power of
government to enforce laws. People
who break certain laws can be fined,
imprisoned, or executed. People who
violate ethical or moral standards do
not face these kind of punishments
unless their action also violate laws.
We often “punish” people who disobey
moral or ethical obligations by simply
expressing our disapproval or by
condemning the behavior.
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Time to make
your own
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