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（阿帕）在制度上推进专业哲学家对科学和技术伦理问题的研究。 阿帕是美国最大的专业哲学家组织，虽然它以前曾与国家科学基金会就科学和技术发展的多样性问题进行过合作，但阿帕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技术伦理问题的哲学家的专业发展。 在与几位顾问协商后，主要研究者将组织一个特别的伦理和技术咨询委员会，作为阿帕职业地位和未来常设委员会的一部分。 伦理与技术咨询委员会的活动将包括：（1）在2004年10月于特拉华州大学举行的下一次阿帕心理协会支持的关于21世纪世纪伦理的特别会议上，突出伦理与科学技术的研究;（二）在未来三年的阿帕年会上组织一系列关于科技伦理问题的会议，重点是教育协会成员了解这些问题的重要性，以及提高哲学家和哲学系在这些领域工作的形象的战略，（3）赞助研究生奖和旅行津贴竞赛，以便在阿帕年度会议上提交关于伦理和技术的最佳论文，（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阿帕执行主任提供建议，（5）鼓励在与科学和技术伦理问题有关的领域建立应用哲学研究中心联盟，（6）制定战略手段，在阿帕关于科学技术伦理的会议和出版物中建立长期存在。 该项目对这一领域未来工作的潜在影响相当大。 虽然更专业的哲学组织长期以来一直积极促进伦理学和科学技术的研究，但阿帕的范围和影响力更有可能影响整个行业，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大的专业联系起来，并与哲学家可能对科学和技术政策中的伦理问题的讨论更具影响力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.