Friday, 15 October 2021 Assoc. Prof. Tomaž Grušovnik, PhD about the role of ethics in research, 19 October at 18:00
In the light of the Global Ethics Day, a lecture entitled “The role of ethics in research” will be organized as part of the international project Resbios (UP FAMNIT). The lecture will be given by a renowned philosopher and lecturer at UP, Assoc. Prof. Tomaž Grušovnik, PhD.
The event will take place online on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at 6 p.m.
To participate in the lecture, which will be implemented via ZOOM, it is necessary to register via the application form (the zoom link will be sent the day before the event to the address specified in the application form).
Deadline for registration is 18 October 2021, 12:00 CET
About the lecture:
The lecture will address the role of ethics in research, in particular the issue of ethical methodology and the reasonably expected results of ethical analysis. In addition, three general moral paradigms will be presented - utilitarianism, the ethics of government, and the ethics of virtue. The lecturer will also briefly present the main principles of environmental and animal ethics (environmental ethics and deep ecology). Moral motivation will be briefly mentioned with an emphasis on intentional ignorance. Moreover, special attention will be paid to different models of professional relations in the workplace (paternalistic, technical, collaborative and friendly), and a web of main stakeholders in ethical judgment (subjects, researchers, data, community) will be briefly presented.
About the lecturer:
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Tomaž Grušovnik is an associate professor and senior research associate at the University of Primorska. His main areas of interest are ethics and education philosophy. He was a visiting Fulbright researcher at the University of New Mexico (USA) and a visiting lecturer at the University of Oslo (Norway). In the years 2018–2020 he was also the president of the Slovenian Philosophical Society. He has written several books on his interesting topics and co-edited the book Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial (Lexington, 2020). |
About the project:
The ResBios project (RESponsible research and innovation grounding practices in BIOSciences) aims to strengthen responsible research in biosciences and is funded by Horizon2020. The project aims to promote the integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into four new bioscience research organizations from 4 European countries. The project is based on a method of mutual learning, the main driving force of which is the interaction between partners who re-introduce the foundations of RDI through action plans ("RDI beginners") and other partners ("RDI mentors") whose experience comes from their participation in the project. STARBIOS2 (H2020). UP FAMNIT participates in the project as a mentoring institution in the fields of ethics and open access and as the leader of work package IV, led by prof. dr. Elena Bužan, PhD.
