How Science Engages with Ethics and Why It Should
eBook - ePub

How Science Engages with Ethics and Why It Should

An Interdisciplinary Approach

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eBook - ePub

How Science Engages with Ethics and Why It Should

An Interdisciplinary Approach

About this book

We live in an era of extreme claims versus weak consensus on issues critical to the public. Is climate change a hoax, or is it destroying our planet? Were the vaccines and social distancing measures of COVID-19 designed to protect us, or were they an invasion of our liberty? How do we determine the validity of these claims and others like them? Can we find a reliable middle ground leading to policies that help everyone?

How Science Engages with Ethics and Why It Should makes an impassioned plea for a scientific analysis of ethics, discussing what such a method is, why we need it, and what it can offer that other methods cannot.

With contributions from leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, Part 1 explores the challenges facing scientists and how to establish ground rules that will both protect human subjects and guide researchers in the future. Part 2 explores the importance of evidence-based science for topics such as climate change, social care, political polarization and rational decision-making, showing how even good science can go wrong, at times contributing to disastrous effects.

At the cutting edge of its discipline, How Science Engages with Ethics and Why It Should provides a compelling case for demanding evidence-based analysis to form the foundation of the discussions and policies that affect our very lives.

With contributions by:

Jeffrey Barratt, Peter Ditto, Jessica Maria Gonzalez, James W. Hicks, Mahtab Jafari, Rose McDermott, B.W. Sarnecka, Roxane Cohen Silver, Brian Skyrms, Teresa Sabol Spezio, Lawrence Sporty, Kyle Stanford, Ashley J. Thomas, James Tran, and the assistance of Ali Ansari, Kendrick Choi, Hannah Dastgheib, David Han, Nate Kang, Alexis Kim, Connor Lee, Michelle Lee, Lauren O'Neill, Samuel Shih, and Anqi Wang.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9783111143019
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction Why a Scientific Analysis of Ethical Questions?
  6. Chapter 1 The Pragmatic Nature of Empirical Science
  7. Chapter 2 Ethics Training in Science: What We Miss in Health Research
  8. Chapter 3 When Things Go Wrong and Science Forgets About Ethics
  9. Chapter 4 Ethical Issues in Research with Human Subjects
  10. Chapter 5 Human Subjects Research: One Professional Association’s Attempt to Establish Fair Institutional Guidelines
  11. Chapter 6 Ethics in the COVID-19 Trenches: Research with Life and Death Implications and Limited Data Reliability
  12. Chapter 7 Ethics and Pseudoscience in Our Daily Lives: The Status of the Science Behind Dietary Supplements
  13. Chapter 8 Moral Cognition: An Introduction to the Field
  14. Chapter 9 The Social Psychology of Political Polarization
  15. Chapter 10 No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments About Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children
  16. Chapter 11 Trust, Risk, and the Social Contract
  17. Chapter 12 Good Science Is Not Enough: The Misapplication of Science as Seen Through America’s Homelessness Crisis
  18. Chapter 13 Climate Change: Policies, Politics, Science, and Equitable Solutions?