1.5: Ethics in Science

The Thought Experiment Podcast por Amelia Orwant and David Spitz

Notas del episodio

Amelia and David discuss ethics within science, beginning with what the ends of science are (or perhaps ought to be). We then move on to many of the ethical tensions within science broadly, including the ethics of compensation in human subject research, how to best use gene editing, and the dynamics of animal research.

References and Additional Resources

  • One text which exemplifies a lot of the critiques of the supremacy of science associated with moral evils is Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer & Adorno
  • Introduction to Effective Altruism: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
    • We mentioned this briefly, but didn’t sufficiently explain the philosophy (which we will hopefully cov ... 
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