Scientific Responsibility

Rethinking scientific responsibility

Researchers should be made co-responsible for the wider consequences of their research focus and the application of their findings. This paper describes a meta-reflection procedure that can be used as a tool to enhance scientific responsibility and reflective practice. The point of departure is that scientific practice is situated in power relations, has direction and, consequently, power impli...

Scientific communication: The burden of responsibility.

Retractions of scientific publications: responsibility and accountability

This evidence-based opinion piece gives a short overview of the increase in retractions of publications in scientific journals and discusses various reasons for that increase. Also discussed are some of the recent prominent cases of scientific misconduct, the number of authors with multiple retractions, and problems with reproducibility of published research. Finally, some of the effects of fau...

Scientific Challenges to Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Here, I review work from three lines of research in cognitive science often taken to threaten free will and moral responsibility. This work concerns conscious deciding, the experience of acting, and the role of largely unnoticed situational influences on behavior. Whether this work in fact threatens free will and moral responsibility depends on how we ought to interpret it, and depends as well ...

Shared Responsibility for a Clear and Accessibly Written Scientific Paper

In this paper, a hypothesis of shared responsibility for a clear and accessibly written scientific paper published in a scientific journal is put forward and discussed. Among the parties sharing the responsibility, i.e. the author, the peer reviewer, the editor-in-chief together with the editorial board, and the language editor, the author has the greatest responsibility. Producing a clear and ...