β Scribed by Emanuele Ratti (editor), Thomas A. Stapleford (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Virtues have become a valuable and relevant resource for understanding modern science and technology. Scientific practice requires not only following prescribed rules but also cultivating judgment, building mental habits, and developing proper emotional responses. The rich philosophical traditions around virtue can provide key insights into scientific research, including understanding how daily practice shapes scientists themselves and how ethical dilemmas created by modern scientific research and technology should be navigated.
Science, Technology, and Virtues gathers both new and eminent scholars to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the products of modern science and technology. Contributors draw from examples across philosophy, history, sociology, political science, and engineering to explore how virtue theory can help orient science and technology towards the pursuit of the good life. Split into four major sections, this volume covers virtues in science, technology, epistemology, and research ethics, with individual chapters discussing applications of virtues to scientific practice, the influence of virtue ethics on socially responsible research, and the concept of "failing well" within the scientific community. Rather than offer easy solutions, the essays in this volume instead illustrate how virtue concepts can provide a productive and illuminating perspective on two phenomena at the core of modern life.
Fresh and thought-provoking, Science, Technology, and Virtues presents a pluralistic set of scholarship to show how virtue concepts can enrich our understanding of scientific research, guide the design and use of new technologies, and shape how we envision future scientists, engineers, consumers, and citizens.
COVER
Title_Pages
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Using_Virtue_to_Think_About_Science_and_Technology
I. VIRTUES IN SCIENCE
1. Sacrifice in Service to Truth: The Epistemic Virtues of Victorian British Science
2. Seeing Science as a Communal Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Study of Science
3. Studying Scientific Virtues: Bridging Philosophy and Social Science
II. VIRTUES AND TECHNOLO GY
4. Twenty-First-Century Virtue: Living Well with Emerging Technologies
5. Mindful Technology
6. Virtuous Engineers: Ethical Dimensions of Technical Decisions
7. Artificial Phronesis: What It Is and What It Is Not
III. VIRTUES AND EPISTEMOLO GY
8. Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Virtue
9. Virtue and Contingent History: Engineering Science
10. Is βFailing Wellβ a Sign of Scientific Virtue?
11. Virtues in Scientific Practice
IV. VIRTUES AND RESEARCH ETHICS
12. Integrating Virtue Ethics into Responsible-Conduct-of-Research Programs: Challenges and Opportunities
13. Virtue Ethics and the Social Responsibilities of Researchers
14. Dynamic Boundaries: Using Boundary Work to Rethink Scientific Virtues
Index
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