Science and Engineering Ethics 2.0: Toward the Well-being of Individual Scientists/Engineers and the Society

時間：2018年5月29日下午3：20－5：00

地點：beat365新水館327（大禮堂東側）

主講人：劄野 順 教授，日本東京工業大學

講演摘要（英文）

Science and engineering ethics has been taught in the mode of “preventive ethics” with the emphasis on the responsibilities and duties of scientists and engineers to avoid harming the safety and health of the public. However, it has been recognized that a new approach with the emphasis on the positive side of science and engineering practice, which is called “aspirational ethics,” is also important. Meanwhile, it is sometimes forgotten that the main theme of ethics is “eudaimonia,”

which can be translated as “well-being,” in the tradition of Aristotelian virtue ethics. The author proposes a new way of teaching science and engineering ethics in which not only preventive ethics but also aspirational ethics is emphasized, and it is also conveyed with empirical evidence that the well-being of the public and of the individual scientists and engineers should be promoted through ethical decision making and behavior. This mode of Science and engineering ethics is named “Science and Engineering Ethics 2.0.” Some of the findings of the "scientific" studies on well-being and their applications will be introduced to illustrate the deepened understanding of the well-being of individuals and organizations. If the time allows, the contents of an experimental course based on science and engineering ethics 2.0 are briefly described. In addition, some results of measurements on the effectiveness of the above course and education reform at the Tokyo Institute of Technology on the well-being of learners, although admittedly they are very primitive.

劄野順（Jun Fudano）教授簡介：

Jun Fudano is Professor of Science and Engineering Ethics, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and affiliated with the newly established Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL), with the joint appointment in the Institute of Liberal Arts as well as Graduate Department of Human and Social Sciences of Tokyo Tech’s School of Environment and Society.

Jun Fudano（劄野順）是東京工業大學（Tokyo Tech）科學倫理和工程倫理的教授，就職于新成立的東工大領導學院（Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership），且在東工大環境與社會學院的人文與社會科學研究教育院（Graduate Department of Human and Social Sciences）和人文研究所（Institute of Liberal Arts）擔任相關職務。