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Ethical Reflections on Science and Technology

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Taking as reference point Evandro Agazzi’s publications on the ethics of science, this contribution discusses the development of ethical reflections on science and technology during the last decades. The article shows that former debates on the ethical liability of science turned to understanding ethical appraisal as a necessary part of scientific and technological projects. Ethics of science is treated not just as moral reflection on scientific activity, its ends, means and consequences, but as one of the fields of science studies, which is involved in the search for answers to the fundamental question “what is science?”

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    Somewhere else I discussed other aspects of Agazzi’s understanding of goals which are pursued by science and difficulties arising in this connection (Yudin 2004: 258). For the response of Agazzi on my comments see (Agazzi 2004: 329).

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  1. Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Boris Yudin

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  1. Department of Basic Sciences and Foundations, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy

    Mario Alai

  2. Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

    Marco Buzzoni

  3. Department of Basic Sciences and Foundations, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy

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Yudin, B. (2015). Ethical Reflections on Science and Technology. In: Alai, M., Buzzoni, M., Tarozzi, G. (eds) Science Between Truth and Ethical Responsibility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16369-7_21

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