Technoscientific Research: Methodological And Ethical Aspects

✍ Scribed by Roman Z. Morawski

• Publisher: De Gruyter STEM
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 517
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a synthesis of my methodological and ethical experience accumulated over half a century of academic work in the field of measurement science and its applications in electrical and computer engineering, in physics and chemistry, in biology and medicine, as well as in natural environment protection and food technology. This synthesis has been accomplished during the last decade due to the needs resulting from my responsibility for the courses on methodology and ethics of research, addressed to graduate students of Warsaw
University of Technology, and due to more systematic confrontation with the literature of the subject, mainly in English and Polish, but also in German, French, Spanish and Italian. I have cited that literature in this book not only to support my own observations and conclusions, but also to give credit to the authors who actually have influenced my understanding of the subject-matter.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Selected concepts of logic and philosophy......Page 24
3. Science in historical perspective......Page 40
4. Philosophy of science in historical perspective......Page 56
5. Mathematical modelling......Page 78
6. Measurement......Page 104
7. Scientific explanation......Page 130
8. Context of discovery......Page 164
9. Context of justification......Page 180
10. Uncertainty of scientific knowledge......Page 202
11. Basic concepts of Western ethics......Page 234
12. Western ethics in historical perspective......Page 260
13. System of values associated with science......Page 278
14. Principles of moral decision-making......Page 298
15. General issues of research ethics......Page 320
16. Ethical aspects of experimentation......Page 340
17. Ethical aspects of information processing......Page 358
18. Legal protection of intellectual property......Page 392
19. Ethical issues implied by information technologies......Page 430
20. Concluding remarks......Page 450
Appendix: Milestones in the history of science......Page 458
References......Page 478
Index of Names......Page 498
Index of Terms......Page 506

✦ Subjects

Science: Moral And Ethical Aspects, Research: Moral And Ethical Aspects, Research: Methodology