Networks, Ethics and Development

该奖项允许首席研究员在扩展其伦理知识的同时，参与多个关于科学伦理和价值观的研究项目。他将与五名伦理学家一起从事两个项目，其中三名在他的家乡机构，两名在芝加哥地区。这些伦理学者代表了不同的观点和能力领域（例如，职业道德、科学伦理、妥协伦理等）。第一个项目将编写一本书，将伦理考虑与行为者网络观点结合起来，研究国内外科学技术发展和现代化的方法。第二个问题涉及在农业合作社对付新生物技术时所使用的战略中增加伦理考虑。该项目将提出有关这些技术及其预示的组织变革对合作成员持有的道德和其他价值观的影响的问题。在美国农业部主办的合作领导人会议上，伦理问题将被列入议程。对于这两个项目，导师将建议相关的阅读材料，并与研究者讨论问题，研究者将向他们提出具体的问题。此外，调查人员将在其所在机构旁听一个伦理学研究生研讨会，并参加印度理工学院职业伦理学研究中心的研讨会。结果将包括一本关于伦理与发展的书，关于合作社伦理问题的期刊文章，在科学会议上的演讲，以及将伦理融入研究者的教学。

This award allows the principal investigator to engage in several research projects in ethics and values in science while expanding his knowledge of ethics. He will work on two projects, with five ethicists, three at his home institution and two in the Chicago area. These ethics scholars represent different perspectives and areas of competence (e.g., professional ethics, ethics in science, ethics of compromise, etc.), The first project will develop a book that will integrate ethical considerations with actor-network perspectives, in examining domestic and international approaches to scientific and technical development and modernization. The second involves adding ethical considerations to strategies used by agricultural cooperatives in grappling with the new biotechnologies. The project will raise issues surrounding the impact of these technologies and the organizational changes they portend, on ethical and other values held by cooperative members. The ethical issues will be added to the agenda at a meeting of cooperative leaders to be sponsored by USDA. For both projects, the mentors will suggest relevant readings and discuss the issues with the investigator, who will pose specific questions to them. In addition, the investigator will audit a graduate seminar in ethics at his home institution and participate in seminars at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT. Outcomes will include a book on ethics and development, journal articles on ethical issues for cooperatives, presentations at scientific meetings, and integration of ethics into the investigator's teaching.