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Science, Technology, and Virtues gathers a diversity of perspectives to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the products of modern science and technology.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
- List of Editors
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- I. VIRTUES IN SCIENCE
- 1. Sacrifice in Service to Truth: The Epistemic Virtues of Victorian British Science
- Richard Bellon
- 2. Seeing Science as a Communal Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Study of Science
- Thomas A. Stapleford and Daniel J. Hicks
- 3. Studying Scientific Virtues: Bridging Philosophy and Social Science
- Robert T. Pennock and Jon D. Miller
- II. VIRTUES AND TECHNOLOGY
- 4. Twenty-First-Century Virtue: Living Well with Emerging Technologies
- Shannon Vallor
- 5. Mindful Technology
- Mike W. Martin
- 6. Virtuous Engineers: Ethical Dimensions of Technical Decisions
- Jon Alan Schmidt
- 7. Artificial Phronesis: What It Is and What It Is Not
- John P. Sullins
- III. VIRTUES AND EPISTEMOLOGY
- 8. Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Virtue
- Emanuele Ratti
- 9. Virtue and Contingent History: Engineering Science
- Laura Ruetsche
- 10. Is "Failing Well" a Sign of Scientific Virtue?
- Jutta Schickore
- 11. Virtues in Scientific Practice
- Dana Tulodziecki
- IV. VIRTUES AND RESEARCH ETHICS
- 12. Integrating Virtue Ethics into Responsible-Conduct-of-Research Programs: Challenges and Opportunities
- Jiin-Yu Chen
- 13. Virtue Ethics and the Social Responsibilities of Researchers
- Mark Bourgeois
- 14. Dynamic Boundaries: Using Boundary Work to Rethink Scientific Virtues
- Louise Bezuidenhout and Dori Beeler
- Index
Info autore
Emanuele Ratti is Univeristy Assistant in the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method at Johannes Kepler University Linz. His research expertise is in the history and philosophy of science and technology, with a focus on genomics, biomedicine, and data science. He also researches data ethics, and he is developing a novel approach to integrate virtue ethics and microethics in data science education.
Thomas A. Stapleford is Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. A historian of the human sciences and economics, he is the author of The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics (Cambridge, 2009) and has published articles in a diverse set of journals.
Riassunto
Science, Technology, and Virtues gathers a diversity of perspectives to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the products of modern science and technology.
Testo aggiuntivo
This interdisciplinary volume shows how questions of virtue can not only shape technology use and research ethics, but determine the practice of science itself. Virtue here transforms from a quaint inquiry of character into a powerful tool for understanding the fundamentals of modernity.
