WORKSHOP: Science, Ethics, and Justice: Reconsiderations and New Directions.

科学、技术和社会研究中的伦理问题日益复杂和分散，要求多学科参与研究设计和进行。然而，知识论的假设，技能和方法来解决所谓的“伦理”问题在学术领域（例如，社会学，哲学，工程学，计算机科学等）各不相同。本次研讨会是在美国国会通过2007年《美国竞争法》确定科学研究伦理培训轮廓的兴趣之后举行的，并扩展了对这一兴趣的讨论。作为集中交流的一种方式，讲习班汇集了科学和技术研究学者，他们接受了哲学，社会学，人类学和其他领域的培训，他们的研究从正义的角度探讨了科学和技术中的伦理问题。讲习班的目标是：1）为多学科思考科学、知识、伦理和正义之间的关系提供空间和对话。2)记录科学和司法伦理的共同和不同方法，重点是社会和/或政治参与研究的意义和实践。 为了建立跨领域的实质性对话，讲习班将围绕科学、伦理和正义这三个交叉主题进行。这些主题是环境正义，医学科学正义和基因组正义。研讨会的参与者将解释和分享他们的理论框架和研究方法，以解决每个主题，从而促进更好地了解伦理学研究的相似性和差异。这种交流将促进创造创新的、多学科的方法来研究科学伦理。讲习班的成果将是编辑成册，并制作一套小组讨论会，提交科学社会研究学会2012年年会。讲习班将提供一个培训机会，包括研究生以及初级和高级学者参加。

The increasing complexity and dispersion of ethical issues in research on science, technology and society call for multi-disciplinary involvement in research design and conduct. Yet the epistemological assumptions, skills, and methods for tackling what are termed "ethical" issues vary across fields of scholarship (for example, sociology, philosophy, engineering, computer science, etc.). This workshop takes place on the heels of and extends the discussion of the U.S. Congress' interest to identify the contours of ethics training in science research via the America COMPETES Act of 2007. As a way of focusing the exchange, the workshop brings together science and technology studies scholars with training in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and other fields whose research approaches ethics in science and technology from the perspective of justice. The objectives of the workshop are: 1) To provide a space and dialogue for multi-disciplinary reflection on the relationships among science, knowledge, ethics, and justice. 2) To document shared and divergent approaches to ethics in science and justice with a focus on the meaning and practice of socially and/or politically engaged research. In order to create substantive dialogue across fields, the workshop will be oriented around the three themes situated at the intersection of science, ethics, and justice. These themes are environmental justice, medical science justice, and genomic justice. Workshop participants will explain and share their theoretical frameworks and research methodologies for tackling each topic, thereby promoting a better understanding of the similarities and differences in ethics research. Such an exchange will promote the creation of innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of ethics in science. The workshop will result in the production of an edited volume and a set of panels for presentation at the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. The workshop will offer a training opportunity by including graduate students as well as junior and senior scholars as participants.