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北大科学史与科学哲学论坛第71讲

时间：2009年6月5日（周五）下午2：30－4：30
地点：承泽园科社中心一楼学术报告厅
主讲人：Ruth Chadwick(英国 Cardiff University)
主题：Does Science need ethics?

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附Ruth Chadwick介绍
Ruth Chadwick is Director of the ESRC (Economic and Social Sciences Research Council) Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Cardiff University, UK. She holds a Link Chair between Cardiff Law School and the School of English, Communication and Philosophy (ENCAP). She has co-ordinated a number of projects funded by the European Commission, including the EUROSCREEN projects (1994-6; 1996-9) and co-edits the journal Bioethics and the online journal Genomics, Society and Policy. She is Chair of the Human Genome Organisation Ethics Committee and has served as a member of several policy-making and advisory bodies, including the Panel of Eminent Ethical Experts of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and the UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP). She was editor-in-chief of the award winning Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (1998), of which a second edition is now being prepared. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Hastings Center, New York; of the Royal Society of Arts; and of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 2005 she was the winner of the World Technology Network Award for Ethics for her work on the relationship between scientific developments and ethical frameworks.


内容提要
The answer to the question ‘Does science need ethics?’ depends of course on what ethics is taken to be. From some points of view it might be seen as a device to prevent bad practice, with possibly over-restrictive results. On the other hand, it might be seen as facilitating good practice and enabling conflicts of interest to be resolved. This presentation will address the issue by looking at the three fundamental questions that face us as human beings, as identified by the philosopher Immanuel Kant: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for? The extent to which science can answer them, and the role of ethics, will be examined