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12Character Comes from Practice: Longitudinal Practice-Based Ethics Training in Data ScienceIn E. Hildt, K. Laas, C. Miller & E. Brey (eds.), Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM, Springer Verlag. pp. 181-201. 2024.In this chapter, we propose a non-traditional RCR training in data science that is grounded in a virtue theory framework. First, we delineate the approach in more theoretical detail by discussing how the goal of RCR training is to foster the cultivation of certain moral abilities. We specify the nature of these ‘abilities’: while the ideal is the cultivation of virtues, the limited space allowed by RCR modules can only facilitate the cultivation of superficial abilities or proto-virtues, which h…Read more
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9The End of 'Small Biology'? Some Thoughts About Biomedicine and Big ScienceBig Data and Society 1-6. 2016.In biology—as in other scientific fields—there is a lively opposition between big and small science projects. In this commentary, I try to contextualize this opposition in the field of biomedicine, and I argue that, at least in this context, big science projects should come first.
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4Towards a Notion of Intervention in Big-Data Biology and Molecular MedicineIn Marco Nathan & Giovanni Boniolo (eds.), Foundational Issues in Molecular Medicine, Routledge. 2016.We claim that in contemporary studies in molecular biology and biomedicine, the nature of ‘manipulation’ and ‘intervention’ has changed. Traditionally, molecular biology and molecular studies in medicine are considered experimental sciences, whereas experiments take the form of material manipulation and intervention. On the contrary “big science” projects in biology focus on the practice of data mining of biological databases. We argue that the practice of data mining is a form of intervention a…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
Philosophy of Science, Misc |