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Researching with values for more ethical decisions

2024
Talks

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Can social, organisations and disciplinary values guide decisions when thinking about ethical challenges? With this presentation, I describe the ambivalence of decision-making when it comes to being a cause or a valuable resource for acting upon ethics challenges. Furthermore, I describe how personal, organisational, and disciplinary values influence our attitudes to research, and indicate that cultivating values, such as sustainability, in everyday tasks can generate more informed decisions, and ethical research processes. For example, design research outputs can be used to empower local communities to create more sustainable practices.

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2024
Talks

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/45eb0d08-5c6f-4821-bd63-cd52b0f91757

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In philosophy, ethical dilemmas, also called ethical paradoxes or moral dilemmas, are situations in which an agent stands under two (or more) conflicting moral requirements, none of which overrides the other. A closely related definition characterizes ethical dilemmas as situations in which every available choice is wrong. The term is also used in a wider sense in everyday language to refer to ethical conflicts that may be resolvable, to psychologically difficult choices or to other types of difficult ethical problems.

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Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansion on past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole.

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