Building Capability in Philosophical Approaches to Ethics and Science and Technology

本项目旨在通过美国哲学协会（APA）从制度上推动专业哲学家对科学技术伦理问题的研究。美国心理学协会是美国最大的专业哲学家组织。虽然它以前曾与美国国家科学基金会就科学技术发展的多样性问题进行合作，但美国心理学协会现在希望扩大这些努力，包括在更广泛的探究领域内从事与技术有关的伦理问题的哲学家的专业发展。在与几位顾问协商后，主要研究人员将组织一个关于道德和技术的特别咨询委员会，作为美国心理学协会常设委员会关于该职业的现状和未来的一部分。伦理与技术咨询委员会的活动将包括：(1)2004年10月在特拉华大学举行的下一届由美国心理学协会支持的21世纪伦理特别会议上，重点介绍伦理与科学技术的研究；(2)组织一系列的会议在APA年度会议在未来三年内在科技伦理问题与关注教育协会的会员在这些问题的重要性和策略来增加哲学家和哲学的档案部门在这些领域工作,(3)资助研究生奖和旅行津贴竞争最好的论文提交伦理和技术在APA年度会议,(4)就改善美国哲学系与工程和应用科学学院之间关系的策略向美国心理学协会执行主任提供建议；(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)制定策略，在美国心理学协会关于科学和技术伦理的会议和出版物中建立永久的存在。这个项目对该领域未来工作的潜在影响是相当大的。虽然更专业的哲学组织长期以来一直积极促进伦理和科学技术的研究，但美国心理学协会的范围和范围甚至有更大的潜力影响整个职业，并可能有助于为在该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，以及与哲学家可能对科学和技术政策中的伦理问题的讨论更有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.