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Title: Ethics in science : should it be part of the core curriculum?
Authors: Vella, Alfred J.
Keywords: Science -- Study and teaching
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects
Education, Higher
Issue Date: 2003
Publisher: Bioethics Consultative Committee
Citation: Vella, A.J. (2003). Ethics in science : should it be part of the core curriculum? Ethics, Science and Society, Malta. 49-52
Abstract: It is likely that the reason why the absence of ethics from a science degree course is not missed lies in the belief that good science has got to be performed in a completely objective and disinterested manner so that having any kind of predisposition to a set of ethical or moral values might actually be prejudicial to the scientific process itself. According to this point of view, the mind has to be untrammeled by any considerations other than those involved in the investigation of the phenomena being examined. Indeed, some might even argue, that since ethics deals with essentially human interests, ethical considerations are irrelevant to science which argument would then lead to the absurd conclusion that good science can only be performed by androids or robots since scientists cannot possibly leave their human dimension outside the laboratory door.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/27135
ISBN: 999099935X
Appears in Collections:Ethics, Science and Society

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