Values in Research Ethics Education

The chapter argues that the philosophical literature on values and science improves research ethics education in three ways. First, it helps understand the epistemic, moral, and social justification of research ethical norms. Second, it clarifies how moral and social values should guide and constrain the core activities of scientific inquiry. Third, it calls attention to the strengths and weaknesses of institutional policies to increase awareness of the proper roles of moral and social values in science. Readers may be interested in these Handbook chapters as well: Stephen John, “Transparency in Science”; David B. Resnik, “Values and Dual Use Biomedical Research.”