Innovative Science and Social Ethics

 

 

12:30-5:50 PM, October 17, 2016
Main Conference Room (3rd Floor)
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
The University of Tokyo


Introduction

 

Innovative scientific research and its application often generate complex ethical implications as they call into question and render insufficient current cultural, moral, and legal norms. For example, an enormous amount of pharmaceutical research and development investment goes into research on drugs for diseases of the rich in advanced countries rather than for the poor in Africa. Likewise, defining the safety of nuclear energy concerns how to balance and integrate socially and scientifically rational analysis. As such, the social ethics of innovative science poses an urgent research question but it remains gravely understudied partly because this question borders on many but belongs to no particular academic disciplines and professional programs available in universities. The first joint interdisciplinary workshop organized by the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo is planned to address this complex, ongoing issue, the wider social, cultural, and even political ramifications of which require transnational and cross-disciplinary collaborative investigations.

 

This workshop is generously supported by

• PDF version of the workshop poster can be downloaded here.