Morals, science

Then there are Academic des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, for archeologists, Egyptologists, etc. Academic des Sciences, Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques, for economists, lawyers, political scientists, and Academic des Beaux Arts for the fine arts. The five Academies are independent, but have a few activities together, and they share the buildings. The Institut is the overarching structure, the only legal entity. 

As is well-known in philosophy, certain feminist critics of science and technology, for example, Keller [27] and Harding [28], have argued that the scientihc community has maintained the status quo in its exclusion of women and women s concerns. To the extent that a person believes that the scientihc community has or has not excluded women, and to the extent that a person believes exclusion is unjust, that person may address the question of computer use favoring the status quo and excluding women. Although there are good reasons to think that the scientihc community has not been the disaster that certain feminists think it is [29], any researcher should be well aware of the possibility of exclusion not only for the effect on scientihc validity but also for the moral questions exclusion raises. 

Still, some members of the lay public are clearly skeptical of science and scientists, as indicated by the view of the profession presented on the cover of a national magazine in Figure 6.110 Although we may be assured that scientists as a group are no more deficient in morals than, say, cartoonists, it is important to understand the basis of public perceptions and to examine the practical implications for laboratory management. Industrial products are very widely distributed and many are used intimately. There are real consequences that can arise from a serious error in manufacture or design, as illustrated by the case of L-tryptophan. 

Reductionist theories of human behavior are hardly new. During much of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries man has been constructed as an evolutionary product, the brain as biochemical, and the body as hormones or genes. The Nineteenth century sciences of craniometry and phrenology reduced social, moral, and intellectual differences to physical manifestations. 

Morales, A. M. Lieber, C. M. 1998. A laser ablation method for the synthesis of crystalline semiconductor nanowires. Science 279 208-211. 

The preceding chapters have portrayed the consequences for science and for occult alchemy of their mutual interest in material transmutation. This chapter explores different cultural consequences of modem alchemy in relationship to monetary anxieties during the Depression Era. In particular, it narrates how the idea of modern alchemy intensified questioning of the gold standard and of the moral foundation of scientific aspiration. By the late 1920s and... 

Mahatma Gandhi listed seven blunders of humanity Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles, Knowledge without character, and Science without humanity. 

Davis, B. D., Science, Objectivity, and Moral Values, Program on Public Conceptions of Science Newsletter, Apr. 1975, 11, pp. 39-47. 

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