Title |
Towards Improving the Ethics of Ecological Research
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Published in |
Science and Engineering Ethics, June 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/s11948-014-9558-4 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
G. K. D. Crozier, Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde |
Abstract |
We argue that the ecological research community should develop a plan for improving the ethical consistency and moral robustness of the field. We propose a particular ethics strategy-specifically, an ongoing process of collective ethical reflection that the community of ecological researchers, with the cooperation of applied ethicists and philosophers of biology, can use to address the needs we identify. We suggest a particular set of conceptual (in the form of six core values-freedom, fairness, well being, replacement, reduction, and refinement) and analytic (in the forms of decision theoretic software, 1000Minds) tools that, we argue, collectively have the resources to provide an empirically grounded and conceptually complete foundation for an ethics strategy for ecological research. We illustrate our argument with information gathered from a survey of ecologists conducted at the 2013 meeting of the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution. |
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