A Model of Philosophical Value Studies in a Graduate Science Curriculum

该项目将开发一门哲学研究课程，重点是伦理学，特别适合理科研究生。该课程模式将在海洋生物实验室的具体设置中实施。在许多方面，这样的实验室类似于小型的文科大学校园。设置要有利于哲学和科学的问题、方法和问题的结合。按照下列顺序提出了四个课程单元或研讨会：1)科学理论；2)伦理理论；3)环境与发展伦理；4)职业伦理。每门都是两个学分，半学期的课程，每周两个小时，为期八周；学生应该参加整个序列。新的特点包括通过科学史和哲学课程向研究生介绍哲学，在转向应用伦理学问题之前要求研究伦理理论，包括课程所有方面的非西方(中文)材料和观点，以及探索为生物和环境科学的研究学者制定具体职业道德准则的必要性或可取性问题。该项目的成果将在两个科学小组的会议上传播：全国海洋实验室协会和河口研究联合会。还计划制定教学大纲和带注释的参考书目。

This project will develop a curriculum of philosophical studies, with an emphasis on ethics, especially appropriate for graduate students in the sciences. The curricular model will be implemented in the specific setting of a marine biological laboratory. In many respects such laboratories resemble small, liberal arts college campuses. The setting should be conducive to integrating philosophical and scientific issues, methods, and problems. Four course modules or seminars are proposed in the following order: 1) Theories of Sciences; 2) Theories of Ethics; 3) Ethics of the Environment and Development; and 4) Professional Ethics. Each are two-credit, half-semester courses, which will meet for two hours a week over eight weeks; students are expected to participate in the entire sequence. Novel features include introducing graduate students to philosophy through a course in the history and philoosphy of science, requiring work in ethical theory before truning to issues in applied ethics, including non- Western (Chinese) materials and perspectives in all facets of the curriculum, and exploring the question of need or desirability of developing a specific code of professional ethics for research scholars in the biological and envirnomental sciences. Results from the project will be disseminated at the meetings of two scientific groups: The National Association of Marine Laboratories and The Estuarine Research Federation. There are also plans to develop a syllabus and annotated bibliography.