Science, culture and eco-ethics

Teaching Research Ethics: Changing the Culture of Science

From 1995-2006, I was Project Director of a collaborative effort of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics for a project, Graduate Research Ethics Education (GREE) funded by the National Science Foundation (Grants # SES-9817880 and SBR 9241897) to teach research ethics to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the physical and natural sciences, social sciences and engineer...

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

Research on Ethnic Eco-ethics and Eco-civilization’s Construction in Chinese Ethnic Regions

Eco-civilization is the integral product of material achievement, spiritual achievement and regulations. It’s the cultural & ethical manifestation of the harmonic coexistence of humans & nature, balanced development, sustainable prosperity. The key ideology is the harmony and equality between nature and humans, the co-existence of multi-species and the re-production of resources. The nature ide...

Science, ethics, and civil law.

Reflections on Science and Ethics*

I am a student of philosophy. In the beginning I had actually thought of studying music, not so much because I love music – but because music has never caused war. Only words produce war, and, having become afraid of words, I thought – why not study music and become a conductor? But then I chose philosophy – because of the questions it involves; and I almost left philosophy – because of the ans...