Building Capability in Philosophical Approaches to Ethics and Science and Technology

该项目的目的是通过美国哲学协会(APA)从制度上推动专业哲学家对科学技术中的伦理问题的研究。APA是美国最大的专业哲学家组织。虽然它以前曾在科学和技术发展的多样性问题上与NSF合作，但APA现在希望扩大这些努力，以包括在更广泛的调查领域中研究与技术有关的伦理问题的哲学家的职业发展。在与几名顾问协商后，首席调查员将组织一个道德和技术特别咨询委员会，作为《行政程序法》关于该专业现状和未来的常设委员会的一部分。伦理和技术咨询委员会的活动将包括：(1)在2004年10月在特拉华大学举行的由《行动纲领》支持的下一次21世纪伦理特别会议上开展关于伦理和科学技术的研究；(2)在今后三年的学会年度会议上组织一系列关于科学和技术伦理问题的会议，重点是教育协会成员认识这些问题的重要性以及提高从事这些领域工作的哲学家和哲学系的形象的战略，(3)赞助研究生奖项和旅行津贴竞赛，以获得在美国科学协会年会上提交的关于伦理与技术的最佳论文，(4)就改善全美哲学系与工程和应用科学学院之间关系的战略向美国科学协会执行主任提供建议，(5)鼓励成立一个致力于与科技伦理问题相关领域的应用哲学研究中心的联盟，以及(6)为在美国科学协会关于科技伦理的会议和出版物中建立长期存在的手段制定战略。这一项目对这一领域未来工作的潜在影响相当大。虽然更多的专门哲学组织长期以来一直积极促进伦理和科学技术的研究，但《行政程序法》的范围和影响范围更有可能对整个行业产生影响，并可能有助于为在这一领域工作的哲学家创造新的就业机会。反过来，该项目将有助于将已经在这一领域工作的哲学家的研究与更广泛的专业联系起来，以及将哲学家可能在讨论科技政策中的伦理问题上发挥更大影响的公共场所联系起来。

The purpose of this project is to institutionally advance the study of ethical issues in science and technology among professional philosophers through the American Philosophical Association (APA). The APA is the largest organization of professional philosophers in the U.S. While it has previously worked with the NSF on issues concerning diversity in the development of science and technology, the APA hopes now to expand these efforts to include the professional development of philosophers working on ethical issues concerning technology in broader areas of inquiry. In consultation with several advisors, the principal investigators will organize a special Advisory Committee on Ethics and Technology as part of the standing APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession. Activities of the Advisory Committee on Ethics and Technology will include (1) featuring research on ethics and science and technology at the next APA supported special conference on ethics in the 21st century at the University of Delaware in October 2004, (2) organizing a series of sessions at the annual meetings of the APA over the next three years on ethical issues in science and technology with a focus on educating the membership of the association on the importance of these issues and on strategies to increase the profile of philosophers and philosophy departments working in these areas, (3) sponsoring a graduate student award and travel stipend competition for the best submitted paper on ethics and technology at annual meetings of the APA, (4) advising the Executive Director of the APA on strategies to improve relations between philosophy departments and faculties of engineering and applied science throughout the US, (5) encouraging the formation of a coalition of research centers in applied philosophy working in areas relating to ethical issues in science and technology, and (6) strategizing means to create a permanent presence in the meetings and publications of the APA on the ethics of science and technology. The potential impact of this project on the future of work in this area is quite strong. While more specialized philosophical organizations have long been active in the promotion of research on ethics and science and technology, the scope and reach of the APA has even greater potential to influence the profession as a whole and possibly help in the creation of new job opportunities for philosophers working in this area. In turn, the project will help to connect the research of philosophers already working in this area to the larger profession, as well as to public venues where philosophers may be more influential on the discuss on of ethical issues in science and technology policy.