An Ethics of Science Communication
This book presents the first comprehensive set of principles for an ethics of science communication. We all want to communicate science ethically, but how do we do so? What does being ethical when communicating science even mean? The authors argue that et
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Joan Leach
An Ethics of Science Communication
Fabien Medvecky · Joan Leach
An Ethics of Science Communication
Fabien Medvecky University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand
Joan Leach The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Preface
Look to the manner in which people in the middle might argue the case. —Jonsen and Toulmin, The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (Jonsen & Toulmin, 1988)
In the outer suburbs of ethical circles, which is arguably where science communication lives, there has been a long-standing debate on how to make ethical decisions, choices and even sensible statements. It is useful for us to pause and take in the contours of this debate. Our guide for this layover might most usefully be the philosopher and historian, even polymath, Stephen Toulmin. Toulmin had an academic life that spanned continents and traditions, and he directly connects a long-standing philosophical tradition of ethics and reasoning with an equally long-standing tradition of communication, specifically persuasive communication or rhetoric. In the mid-1970s, after writing a number of books on philosophy of science and informal logic, Toulmin served on the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioural Research, established by the US Congress. During this time, he collaborated with Albert R. Jonsen to write The
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