Ethics of the Sciences

This book sketches the outlines of a novel approach to the ethics of the sciences that aims to improve the connections between science and society in a nuanced and interdisciplinary way. The contributors collectively propose to elevate the ethics of science from an ancillary field that mainly provides services to the sciences to a field that is in its own right a hub of knowledge, developing its own scholarly processes and methods that are translatable into a broad range of scientific contexts. This shift is facilitated by a rigorously interdisciplinary perspective that spans a wide range of expertise, subject matters, and approaches. Accordingly, the volume contains contributions from a broad spectrum of fields. This book is an essential resource for students and researchers in science and technology studies, philosophy of science and technology, philosophy, bio-/medical ethics, law, sociology, educational sciences, political sciences, computer/data science, and history of science.

Jan Hinrichsen is a cultural anthropologist of science and technology. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany. Kilian Bizer is Professor of Economic Policy and SME Research at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany. Christoph Hönnige is Professor for Comparative and German Politics at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.  Catrin Misselhorn is Chair of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, Germany.  Thomas A.C. Reydon is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the Institute of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.  Silke Schicktanz is Full Professor of Ethical and Cultural Studies of Biomedicine and director of the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany.