Pugwash Workshop No. 286
Pugwash Workshop on Science, Ethics and Society
27-29 June 2003
Paris, France
Precis
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Provisional Agenda
I. Stating the problem
Can science be neutral ?
Ethics and concrete cases in research
Ethics and secrecy
II. Surveying existing institutions and practices;
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Ethical committees, norms/sanctions
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Codes of conduct; codes of ethics
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Hippocratic oaths and pledges
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Why the present oaths do not work?
III. Assigning responsibilities and suggesting new actions.
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Responsibilities: Scientists
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Responsibilities: Governments, Institutions,
Citizens, Civil society
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Education (students, scientists)
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Information
- general public
- ethics of information
- communicators (intermediates between
scientists and the general public)
* Role/responsibility
of the scientists, of scientific communicators;
* Role
of the media
* Role
of funding authorities, institutions, in facilitating communication.
IV. Other issues (to be discussed as necessary)
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Early warning committee: Monitoring of early signs
of situations involving grave risk.
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Communications between scientists and those interested
in the ethical, legal and social implications of science. Need for
an international advisory panel to set standards and ensure consistency?
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How to create a morally and politically charged
environment in order to get voluntary codes of conduct/ethics norms
effective enough (ineffective in a moral or political vacuum) ?
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Specific tasks for scientists : world citizenship,
war free world
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