Ethics in Human Sciences

Starter: Do ethical considerations hinder or help the production of knowledge in the human sciences?

Objective: explore the role of ethics and values in the search for knowledge in human sciences

Outcomes:

What do we know about our economic model & climate change and what are the moral implications of this knowledge?

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3. Why haven't we acted on this knowledge to address the issue of anthropogenic climate?

Note your ideas before watching the video to consider the role of egoism in this inaction.

After considering the ethics of research and the ethics of inaction, now let's consider the ethics of action on knowledge generated through the human sciences.

4. Choose one of the following examples of action based on knowledge generated in human sciences. Watch the video and conduct further research to make notes under the following headings:

1. What was the origin of the knowledge? (Who discovered it and how?)
2. How was the knowledge applied / put into practice?
3. What ethical questions were raised as a result of this application of knowledge?
4. Do these ethical questions hold true today, by modern ethical standards?

Game Theory - John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, John Nash,

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Nudge Theory - Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein

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Propaganda - Edward Bernays

How One Man Manipulated All of America

PLENARY: Given this...

Social science research and practice helps us to understand and manage many of the issues facing society, the environment, the economy and places, and helps shape government policy.

...should moral implications of possessing knowledge about human behaviour affect our decisions on applying that knowledge for the greater good?

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