Børsen Hansen, Tom; (2006) Academic and social responsibility of scientists. [Letter]. ISYP Journal on Science and World Affairs , 2 (2) pp. 71-92.

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‘Science Agenda – Framework for Action’, a document endorsed at the International Council for Science (ICSU) and UNESCO’s ’World Conference on Science’ in 1999, recommends that ‘the basic ethical principles and responsibilities of science’ be an integral part of the education and training of all scientists and engineers. However, within this document it is not clearly defined what exactly is to be understood by the phrase ‘the basic ethical principles and responsibilities of science’. The aim of this article is to characterise a possible meaning of this phrase, emphasising the academic and social responsibility of individual scientists and engineers. In doing so, a model is presented and used. The model suggests that the ethics of science concerns three interacting levels: a normative level where ethical principles of science are set up, discussed, and justified; an individual level where the ethical principles are translated into responsible actions of individual scientists and engineers; and a structural or contextual level where the social institutions and mechanisms that surround the individual scientists and engineers are addressed.

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